Bureaucracy and State Knowledge: On the Production of Statistics in Chile (1750s-1870s)
This article studies the formation of the Chilean statistical service in a period that ranges from the last decades of colonial rule to the 1870’s. The purpose of this chronology is to place the first republican scientific efforts in a broad time horizon, linking them with the proto-statistical rese...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2019-10-01
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Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/76841 |