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States of Inquiry Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Oz Frankel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0801888778, 9781421427881, 0801883407, 9780801888779, 9780801883408
- OCLC
- ocn190715218, ocn923193318
- Open Access
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-357) and index.
- English
- 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
Subjects
- Government publications -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Printing, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Social surveys -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
- Government publications -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Printing, Public -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Social surveys -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Population -- Statistical methods.
- United States -- Population -- Statistical methods.