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As Silverstein beautifully demonstrates, statistics is not so much about accurate numbers describing the state, but about largely inaccurate numbers performing the state. Deploying a rich ethnography of both farmers and statisticians in Turkey, he convincingly argues that aligning Turkish figures with EU policies necessarily is about process and institutional change. This book will reward attention from policy analysts and science studies scholars and students alike, as well as a broader readership wishing to explore the techniques of the modern nation state.

"Eye-opening biography of Frances Glessner Lee, who brought American medical forensics into the scientific age…genuinely compelling."—Kirkus Reviews