The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe Before the First World War
(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)
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How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre-World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre-World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how to define fitness for soldiers and how to translate...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0262536323
ISBN13:9780262536325
Release Date:January 2019
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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