Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America

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Cambridge University Press, Sep 14, 2000 - Business & Economics - 245 pages
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.
 

Contents

Governmentality in context
17
Part I
41
The formation of governmental objects in late nineteenthcentury American discourse
43
Francis A Walker and the formation of American governmental subjectivity
60
American manhood and the strains of governmental subjectivity
84
Part II
107
The spatial politics of governmental knowledge
113
An American exceptionalist political economy
158
Manhood space and governmental regulation
186
Conclusion
214
Bibliography
223
Index
234
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