Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics

Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas, Argentina.  Andrés Estefane is an independent researcher based in Santiago, Chile; he received his Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.   Claudia Jorgelina Daniel is Adjunct Researcher at CONICET based in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Back to color Ethnic Origins, Race and Nation in Argentine Censuses.- Chapter 3: Statistics, regionalization and the rise of the dimension of the national in Brazil.- Chapter 4: Reckoning the might of the Republic: Official statistics and population in Colombia, 1886-1936.- Chapter 5: Antonio Peñafiel, a physician collecting statistical figures to create a statistical culture for Mexican public life.- Chapter 6: The Caribbean Crucible. How the colonial experience shaped statistical practices in the French Caribbean.- Chapter 7: The Statistics on the Old French Colony of Guadalupe from the nineteenth century to the interwar period.- Chapter 8: Counting Before the Nations. Statistics and Enlightenment in South America.