books.google.ca - 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...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Governmentality_and_the_Mastery_of_Terri.html?id=k6_R9jr1DLMC&q=Census+Office&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGovernmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America