A mania for measurement: Statistics and statecraft in the transition to apartheid

Science and society in southern Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 116-142

  Posel, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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