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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Main Author: Andrés Estefane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019-10-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/76841