The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
Author: Andrew Whitby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three millennia. Tracing the remarkable history of the census from ancient China, through the Roman Empire, revolutionary America, and Nazi-occupied Europe, right up to today's Supreme Court battles, The Sum...
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age