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States of inquiry : social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / Oz Frankel.
Lippincott Library HA37.U55 F75 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frankel, Oz, 1958-
- Series:
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social surveys--United States--History--19th century.
- Social surveys.
- Government publications.
- History.
- Printing, Public.
- Population.
- Statistics.
- United States--Population--Statistical methods.
- United States.
- Printing, Public--United States--History--19th century.
- Government publications--United States--History--19th century.
- Social surveys--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Population--Statistical methods.
- Great Britain.
- Printing, Public--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Government publications--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Oz Frankel explores the nineteenth-century roots of the modern "information state," especially the roles of investigative projects and official reports in embedding the state in print culture and refashioning the politics of representation.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Monuments in print
- Blue books and the market of information
- The battle of the books
- The bee in the book
- The culture of the social fact
- Scenes of commission
- Facts speak for themselves
- Can freedmen be citizens?
- Totem envy
- Archives of Indian knowledge
- The purloined Indian
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Essay on sources.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801883407
- OCLC:
- 61757933
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801883408
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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