Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth Century - Americ

Klappentext Hannah demonstrates that the modernization of late nineteenth-century America was a spatial and geographical project. Zusammenfassung Late nineteenth-century America was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was increasing and traditional hierarchies were being challenged. Hannah demonstrates using a combination of empirical and theoretical data that the modernization of America at the time was a thoroughly spatial and explicitly geographical project. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Governmentality in context; Part I: 2. The formation of governmental objects in late nineteenth century American discourse; 3. Francis A. Walker and the formation of American governmental subjectivity; 4. American manhood and the strains of governmental subjectivity; Part II: 5. The spatial politics of governmental knowledge; 6. An American exceptionalist political economy; 7. Manhood, space and governmental regulation; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Matthew G. Hannah, Matthew G. (University of Vermont) Hannah
• Assisted by: Alan R. H. Baker (Editor), Richard Dennis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2000
• EAN: 9780521660334
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66033-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historica; Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography; Cambridge Studies in Historica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education