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Een monument voor het land
In A monument to the country. Official statistics in Belgium, 1795-1870, Nele Bracke unravels why and how the Belgian state and its predecessors organized and developed an official statistical apparatus in order to collect numerical information. The study captures the underlying objectives and structures, as well as the methods to compile statistics. Nele Bracke investigates the meaning and significance of government statistics in the 19th-century State and society. In Belgium, early social scientists established an internationally renowned 'statistical system' designed to collect information about the country, the people and the society. This 'statistical system' was built around the 'Commission centrale de Statistique' (statistical committee) and the production of demographic, economic and agricultural censuses. In the first part of the book, the author analyzes the institutional history of the 'Commission centrale de Statistique' and its predecessors. In the second part of the book, she studies the censuses.
The Body Populace
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how to define fitness for soldiers and how to translate this criteria outside the military context. In this book, Heinrich Hartmann explores the historical circumstances that shaped collective understandings of fitness in Europe before World War I and how these were intertwined with a fear of demograph...
Verslagen van het RUG-centrum voor genderstudies 16
Verslagboek van de jaarlijkse lezingen van het Centrum voor Genderstudies aan de Universiteit Gent. Volgende onderwerpen komen aan bod: negentiende-eeuwse feminisering van het christendom; vrouwen in het katholieke literaire veld rond 199; discours inzake seksualiteit in strafdossiers uit het interbellum; literaire zorgethiek in Engelstalige hiv/aidsliteratuur; KAV-vorming rond wooncultuur in de jaren zeventig; woonverlichting van Belgische vrouwenorganisaties in de jaren vijftig.
Histoire de la Population de la Belgique Et de Ses Territoires
Dès le 19e siècle, la Belgique s'est dotée de l'un des meilleurs systèmes statistiques du monde. Elle dispose d'un patrimoine incomparable de statistiques. L’ouvrage reprend 25 des 32 communications présentées lors de la Chaire Quetelet...
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