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"Oz Frankel's State of Inquiry explores the nineteenth-century roots of the modern "information state," specifically the roles of investigative projects and official reports in embedding the state in print culture and refashioning the politics of representation." "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 War." "Performing, printing, and then circulating these studies, government established an economy of exchange with its diverse constituencies. In this medium, which Frankel terms "print statism," not only tangible objects such as reports and books but knowledge itself changed hands. As participants, citizens assumed the standing of informants and readers." "Even as policy investigations and official reportage became a distinctive feature of the modern governing process, buttre
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- Author
- Oz Frankel
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781421427881
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Language Learning, Social Science
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