America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics, Paperback - Emmanuel Didier

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to...

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The techniques of early astrology are shown to have been at the foundation of science in this reclaiming of the alleged pseudoscience's value acros...

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Anna Held was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater du...

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While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Illustrations: 16 pages of B&W photographs

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