Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521669498)

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.

Author: Matthew G. Hannah
ISBN-10: 0521669499
ISBN-13: 9780521669498
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2000
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2001 pg. 189