The Nation's Census: 3 Classic Books on U.S. Population Tracking
Classic Writings on U.S. Population Records, Democracy, Migration, and Public KnowledgeBy Francis Rolt-Wheeler, United States. Bureau of the Census
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The Nation's Census gathers three classic texts on U.S. population tracking, presenting the census as both a statistical instrument and a national narrative. Across explanatory prose, institutional documentation, and historically grounded analysis, the volume traces how enumeration transforms households, occupations, migration, and communities into public knowledge. Its range reveals the literary and civic significance of demographic writing: tables and categories become records of social change, while accessible accounts of census practice illuminate the ambitions and limits of national measurement. The collection brings together Francis Rolt-Wheeler's interpretive talent for making public institutions intelligible with the authoritative perspective of the United States Bureau of the Census. These voices belong to the broader Progressive-era and early twentieth-century faith in information, administration, and social research, yet they also expose the constructed nature of official categories. Their combined work situates census-taking within the histories of federal governance, immigration, urbanization, labor, and the evolving definition of the American public. Recommended for students of U.S. history, statistics, public policy, and book history, this volume offers a rare opportunity to read demographic knowledge in its original cultural context. It rewards readers with multiple perspectives on how a nation counts itself, inviting critical reflection on the data, institutions, and narratives that shape collective identity.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length41 hrs
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Politics of America: 9 Classic Books on Power and Policy
2United States Census Figures Back to 1630
3***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 1)
4***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 2)
5***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 3)
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6***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 4)
7***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 5)
8***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 6)
9***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 7)
10***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 8)
11***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 9)
12***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 10)
13***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 11)
14***BYEAR = BASE YEAR ***AYEAR = A YEAR IN COMPARISON TO THE BASE YEAR (pt. 12)
15The Boy With the U.S. Census
16The Boy With the U.S. Census
17PREFACE
18CHAPTER III
19CHAPTER IV
20CHAPTER V
21CHAPTER VI
22CHAPTER VII
23CHAPTER VIII
24CHAPTER IX
25The 1990 United States Census (pt. 1)
26The 1990 United States Census (pt. 2)
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