Overview
Numbers and Nationhood explores the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in Italian society during the nineteenth century. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies that informed numerical productions, and the role that statistics played in generating a national image of Italy that nevertheless accentuated its internal territorial divisions. This innovative study provides a fresh reading of the historiography of Risorgimento Italy, bringing issues of science, ideology and representation to the fore.
- | Author: Silvana Patriarca
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 18, 2003
- | Number of Pages: 296 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521522609
- | ISBN-13: 9780521522601
