States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States

by Oz Frankel

In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social inquiries into child labor, poverty, housing, and factories. The American federal government studied Indian tribes, explored the West, and investigated the condition of the South during and after the Civil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883407
• ISBN13: 9780801883408
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"