States of inquiry
Subtitle: official investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and America
By: Oz Frankel.
Series: New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Social surveys -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- Population -- Statistical methods.; 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.; Printing, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Government publications -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: General introduction; title: Monuments in print : the state as publisher; title: Introduction; title: Blue books and the market of information; title: The battle of the books : citizens as readers; title: The bee in the book : expeditions & explorations; title: The culture of the social fact; title: Introduction; title: Scenes of commission; title: Facts speak for themselves; title: Can freedmen be citizens?; title: Totem envy; title: Introduction; title: Archives of Indian knowledge; title: The purloined Indian; title: Conclusion; title: Essays on sources; title: Notes.