Introduction -- The census and the new nation: apportionment, Congress, and the progress of the United States … -- Sectional crisis and census reform in the 1850s -- Counting slaves and freedmen: war and reconstruction by the numbers -- The … census and industrial America in the Gilded Age -- Building the federal statistical system in the early twentieth century …

, generational change, temporariness and the relative strength of internal and external ties, Demography at the Edge provides a …