TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emigh,Rebecca Jean
AU  - Riley,Dylan J.
AU  - Ahmed,Patricia
TI  - Antecedents of censuses from medieval to nation states: how societies and states count 
SN  - 9781137485021
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Demografia
KW  - Història
KW  - lemac
KW  - Ciències socials
KW  - Censos
KW  - Metodologia
KW  - popin
KW  - METODOLOGÍA
KW  - METHODOLOGY
KW  - CENSOS
KW  - CENSUSES
KW  - HISTORIA
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - CIENCIAS SOCIALES
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCES
N1  - Inclou referències bibliogràfiques (p. 221-259) i índex; Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Interactive Effects of States and Societies on Censuses -- PART II: -- 3. Fiscal Information Gathering -- 4. Fiscal Information Gathering on the Italian Peninsula before National Unification -- PART III: -- 5. Towards Population Censuses -- 6. The Population Census for Legislative Representation in the United States -- 7. Precocious Censuses in the Italian Regional States -- 8. Conclusions
N2  - "Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times. The authors argue that relative influence of states and societies is probably not linear, but depends on the actual historical configuration of the states and societies, as well as the type of population information being collected. They show how information gathering is an outcome of the interaction between states and social forces, and how social resistance to censuses has frequently circumvented their planning, prevented their implementation, and influenced their accuracy"--
ER  -