Download or read book A Cultural History of the British Census written by K. Levitan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-14 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.