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... nations . . . hastened to found a central commission of statistics patterned after that which he had founded . " 2 Meanwhile , as official Belgian delegate to the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge , in 1833 , he had been ...
... nations . . . hastened to found a central commission of statistics patterned after that which he had founded . " 2 Meanwhile , as official Belgian delegate to the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge , in 1833 , he had been ...
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... nations began there have been records of a sta- tistical character . The rise of modern nations , with the growing sense of national unity and of international jealousy , gave rise to comprehensive descriptions of 1 For general guidance ...
... nations began there have been records of a sta- tistical character . The rise of modern nations , with the growing sense of national unity and of international jealousy , gave rise to comprehensive descriptions of 1 For general guidance ...
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Frank Hamilton Hankins. 3 nations and estimates of their relative resources in men . and materials of war . Meitzen ' finds the first of these in the Cosmographia ( 1536 and 1544 ) of Sebastian Muenster . This work treated systematically ...
Frank Hamilton Hankins. 3 nations and estimates of their relative resources in men . and materials of war . Meitzen ' finds the first of these in the Cosmographia ( 1536 and 1544 ) of Sebastian Muenster . This work treated systematically ...
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... nation would require a comparison of its resources with those of other nations , 3 these men were the first to make such compari- sons directly . Moreover , they used , so far as possible , numerical tables drawn from official sources ...
... nation would require a comparison of its resources with those of other nations , 3 these men were the first to make such compari- sons directly . Moreover , they used , so far as possible , numerical tables drawn from official sources ...
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... nation through a period of time , while uniformity for different countries makes possible the direct comparison of ... nations . Hence his leadership in the organization of the International Statistical Congress . In his opening address ...
... nation through a period of time , while uniformity for different countries makes possible the direct comparison of ... nations . Hence his leadership in the organization of the International Statistical Congress . In his opening address ...
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