Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy(Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture

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