Section Name Description
[Week 1] January 8 + 13 - Bureaucratic integration across eighteenth-century Europe Single File Hessenbruch Bottlenecks 2000
Single File Hall Europe and Russia 2003
[Week 2] January 15 + 20 - "The slogan of the day is uniformity": The rise, fall, and rise of the metric system in revolutionary France (and elsewhere) Single File Alder Revolution to measure 1995
Single File Hennessy A uniform system of measures for all nations 1858
Single File Geyer One language for the world 2001
Single File Khvolson Metric system in Russia 1896
[Week 3] January 20 + 22 - Malthusian dilemmas, or, what is "population"? Single File Poovey History of the Modern Fact 1998
[Week 5] February 3+5 - Living in a world of numbers Single File Hacking Taming of Chance ch7 1990
[Week 6] February 10+12 - "Society" as a statistical construct Single File Donnelly Rise of the social sciences
[Week 9] March 3+5 - Visualizing statistics Single File Friendly Wainer History of Data Visualization

The Golden Age of statistical graphics
[Week 10] March 10+12 - Precision sciences of empire Single File Schivelbusch Railway Journey ch3
[Week 11] March 17+19 - Measures of labor Single File Rabinbach The Human Motor ch5