States of inquiry [electronic resource] : social investigations and print culture in nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / Oz Frankel.
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TextSeries: New studies in American intellectual and cultural historyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Description: x, 370 p. : illSubject(s): - 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 -- Population -- Statistical methods
- Great Britain -- Population -- Statistical methods
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- HA37.U55 F75 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-357) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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