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Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America

Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, Book 32

General Political ScienceGeography

ISBN10: 0521660335
ISBN13: 9780521660334
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 14 2000
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Late nineteenth-century America was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was increasing and traditional hierarchies were being challenged. Combining empirical and theoretical material, Hannah explores the modernization of the American federal government during this period. Discussions of gender, race and colonial knowledge engage with Foucault's ideas on governmentality. Through an analysis of the work of Francis A. Walker, a prominent political economist and educator of the time, the author demonstrates that the modernization of the American national state was a thoroughly spatial and explicitly geographical project.

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