Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xiv,280pp. Hint of a lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket shows mild external wear, with a faint dampstain along upper edge, noticeable chiefly on verso; Very Good+.
"Numbers and Nationhood explores the Italian infelction of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation of modern society" (from front flap).
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