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A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

By (author) Mary Poovey

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Exploring such questions as how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge? , this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government; how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts; and how belief - whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity - remained essential to the production of knowledge.

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Publisher | The University of Chicago Press
Published date | 17 Nov 1998
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 448
Dimensions | 233 x 158 x 32mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 760g
ISBN | 978-0-2266-7525-1
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BISAC | social science / statistics

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