"A Samuel & Althea Stroum book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.
Contents:
Middle class mores: Beaufort's bastards -- Breeding true: processing a new elite -- The political economy of natural history -- Homologous networks of exchange: the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange -- Categorizing experience: space and time in nineteenth-century natural history -- The Pacific Railway survey: the subject in the panoramic mode -- Storied pasts -- The plot thickens: the political economic dimensions of biological stories -- Wandering and narrative -- Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex -- Writing, goods, and memory -- Industrial perspectives: Luther Burbank -- Record keeping: a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.
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