Numbers and Nationhood explores the rise of statistics as a mode of representation in Italian society during the nineteenth century. Silvana Patriarca examines the ideologies which informed numerical productions, and the role which statistics played in generating a national image of Italy which nevertheless accentuated its internal territorial divisions.This innovative study provides a fresh reading of the historiography of Risorgiamento Italy, bringing issues of science, ideology and representation to the fore.

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