Social surveys in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 83-99

  Yeo, Eileen Janes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521594424.007     Document Type: Chapter

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