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Mapping the Germans : statistical science, cartography, and the visualization of the German nation, 1848-1914 / Jason D. Hansen.
Author
Hansen, Jason D.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description
xvi, 193 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: History
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GA873.7.A1 H36 2015
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Subject(s)
Cartography
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Germany
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History
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19th century
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Statistics
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Germany
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History
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19th century
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Ethnology
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Germany
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19th century
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Nationalism
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Germany
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History
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19th century
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Germans
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Statistics
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History
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19th century
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Political statistics
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History
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19th century
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Germany
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Maps
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History
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19th century
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Series
Oxford studies in modern European history
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Oxford Studies in Modern European History
Summary note
This book explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity. It asks how spatially-specific knowledge about the nation was constructed, showing the contested and difficult nature of objectifying this frustratingly elastic concept. Ideology and politics were not themselves capable of providing satisfactory answers to questions about the geography and membership of the nation; rather, technology also played a key role in this process, helping to produce the scientific authority needed to make the resulting maps and statistics realistic. In this sense, this book is about how the abstract idea of the nation was transformed into a something that seemed objectively measurable and politically manageable. Jason Hansen also examines the birth of radical nationalism in central Europe, advancing the novel argument that it was changes to the vision of nationality rather than economic anxieties or ideological shifts that radicalized nationalist practice at the close of the nineteenth century. Numbers and maps enabled activists to "see" nationality in local and spatially-specific ways, enabling them to make strategic decisions about where to best direct their resources. In essence, they transformed nationality into something that was actionable, that ordinary people could take real actions to influence.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-190) and index.
Contents
Counting Germans : the search for a practical means to measure nationality
Mapping Germans : making the cultural nation visible
Radical Germans : demography and nationalism, 1880-1914
Connecting Germans : the circuitry of national knowledge
Defending Germans : strategies of intervention
Conclusion : statistics and cartography, war and peace.
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ISBN
9780198714392
0198714394
9780191782800
0191782807
LCCN
2014940245
OCLC
882899252
International Article Number
9780198714392
Other standard number
99962801933
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