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

In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and fac...

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Main Author: Frankel, Oz, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Table of 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.