Inspired by recent developments in social theory and based on
extensive archival research, this book provides the first
systematic analysis of the developing knowledge capacities of the
state in Victorian Canada. No government can intensively administer
citizens about whom it knows nothing. The centralization of
knowledge in the form of official statistics was an important
dimension of state formation. The census of population was the
leading project for the production of social intelligence.
"The Politics of Population" provides a detailed account of the
political and social context in which census-making developed in
Canada. It deals with census-making as a political project,
investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic,
religious, and sectional struggles. It also looks closely at
census-making as an administrative practice, identifying the main
census managers and outlining the organization of five attempts at
census-making between 1842 and 1850, before following in detail how
census-making finally unfolded between 1852 and 1871. Curtis
examines parliamentary debate and governmental reports, but he also
follows census enumerators into the field and traces how what they
saw was worked up into 'official statistics.' Theoretically, the
manuscript engages in a critical dialogue with work in the history
of statistics, studies of state formation, social studies of
scientific knowledge, and work in the field of
'governmentality.'
Winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, awarded by the
Canadian Historical Association, and the John Porter Prize, awarded
by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association.
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