The decennial population census is “the largest peacetime mobilization in American history.” Trace its antecedents in ancient China, the Roman Empire, revolutionary America, and Nazi-occupied Europe, and explore its contemporary political power in data scientist Whitby's The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age.

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