how the census has shaped nations, from the ancient world to the modern age
Whitby, Andrew
2020
"A 3,000-year history of the census chronicles the practices of the ancient world through the Supreme Court rulings of today, examining how censuses have been used as tools of democracy, exclusion and mass surveillance"--OCLC.
In 1790, the suspicious residents of a small Vermont town try to trick the man who has been sent to count their population for the first United States Census.