Socio-political histories of Latin American statistics

In: Studies of the Americas

In: Springer eBook Collection

Abstract

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Back to color Ethnic Origins, Race and Nation in Argentine Censuses -- Chapter 3: Statistics, regionalization and the rise of the dimension of the national in Brazil -- Chapter 4: Reckoning the might of the Republic: Official statistics and population in Colombia, 1886-1936 -- Chapter 5: Antonio Peñafiel, a physician collecting statistical figures to create a statistical culture for Mexican public life -- Chapter 6: The Caribbean Crucible. How the colonial experience shaped statistical practices in the French Caribbean -- Chapter 7: The Statistics on the Old French Colony of Guadalupe from the nineteenth century to the interwar period -- Chapter 8: Counting Before the Nations. Statistics and Enlightenment in South America.