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Author:

Frankel, Oz, 1958-

Title:

States of inquiry : social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / Oz Frankel.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

x, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social surveys--United States--History--19th century.
Printing, Public--United States--History--19th century.
Government publications--United States--History--19th century.
Social surveys--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Printing, Public--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Government publications--Great Britain--History--19th century.
United States--Statistical methods.--Statistical methods.
Great Britain--Statistical methods.--Statistical methods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-357) and index.

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.

Series:

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

ISBN:

9780801883408
9780801883408 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801883407 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61757933

LCCN:

2005027400

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)