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Statistical Nation Building and the Consolidation of Regions in Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Silvana Patriarca
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In recent years, due in part to the increasing diffusion of constructivist conceptions of the social and historical world, statistics has attracted the attention of historians more as an object than as a means of investigation and analysis. While quantification and statistical methods have lost the popularity they gained among social historians in the 1960s and 1970s, new and important histories of statistics and of the theory of probability have appeared that shed new light on the subject (Porter 1986; Stigler 1986; Kriiger et al. 1987; Hacking 1990). These works have traced—at times in highly original and sophisticated ways—genealogy and developments of the statistical methods and probabilistic conceptions that are at the basis of today’s quantitative practices.

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Social Science History , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , Fall 1994 , pp. 359 - 376
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1994 

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