Governmentality and the mastery of territory in nineteenth-century America / Matthew G. Hannah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannah, Matthew G.

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Baker, Alan R. H., publishing director.

Holdsworth, Deryck, 1947- publishing director.

Dennis, Richard, 1949- publishing director.

Series:

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 32.

Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897.

Walker, Francis Amasa.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Power (Social sciences)--United States--History--19th century.

Power (Social sciences).

Social control--United States--History--19th century.

Social control.

United States--Historical geography.

United States.

Historical geography.

United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Summary:

"Matthew Hannah's book focuses on late nineteenth-century America, the period of transformation and upheaval which followed the Civil War and gave birth to the twentieth century. This was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was on the increase and traditional hierarchies were being challenged. Hannah explores the modernization of the American federal government during this period, using a rich tapestry of theoretical and empirical material. Discussions of gender, race and colonial knowledge are woven into an extended engagement with Foucault's ideas on 'governmentality' and other concepts from recent social theory. The empirical strands of the narrative are organized around the public career and writing of Francis A. Walker. A hugely influential figure at that time, he was director of the 1870 and 1880 US censuses, commissioner of Indian affairs and a prominent political economist and educator. Through an analysis of his work and his governing vision of social order, Hannah enriches and moves beyond previous interpretations of the period, demonstrating that the modernization of the American national state was a thoroughly spatial and explicitly geographical project."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Governmentality in context

Part I. The formation of governmental objects in late nineteenth-century American discourse

Francis A. Walker and the formation of American governmental subjectivity

American manhood and the strains of governmental subjectivity

Part II. The spatial politics of governmental knowledge

An American exceptionalist political economy

Manhood, space and governmental regulation.

Notes:

Series editors: Alan R. H Baker, Richard Dennis, Deryck Holdsworth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

0521660335

0521669499

OCLC:

45413908