2021
DOI: 10.1111/johs.12323
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Bottom‐up Nation‐building: National Censuses and Local Administration in Nineteenth‐Century Spain

Abstract: It is customary to consider population censuses (and statistics in general) as exclusive to the modern State, appearing in the second half of the eighteenth century but being developed and spreading in the West during the nineteenth century. Indeed, censuses help to strengthen and legitimize such states. However, in Spain, just as in Europe and the United States, the first population censuses considered modern were the result of, on the one hand, the directives and general and provincial coordination provided … Show more

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“…82 Additionally, censuses have also facilitated bottom-up nation-building, as in Spain. 83 Despite their origins, intentions, or actual impacts, historical censuses have been utilized by genealogists during the "breaking-in" phase (the initial research step); the use of eighteenth and nineteenth-century censuses are primary recommendations in these efforts. 84 Despite states being central actors in the creation of such records, the neo-liberal turn of recent decades has transformed states, as well as their documentary output.…”
Section: Genealogical Data Types: Records Of Statementioning
confidence: 99%
“…82 Additionally, censuses have also facilitated bottom-up nation-building, as in Spain. 83 Despite their origins, intentions, or actual impacts, historical censuses have been utilized by genealogists during the "breaking-in" phase (the initial research step); the use of eighteenth and nineteenth-century censuses are primary recommendations in these efforts. 84 Despite states being central actors in the creation of such records, the neo-liberal turn of recent decades has transformed states, as well as their documentary output.…”
Section: Genealogical Data Types: Records Of Statementioning
confidence: 99%