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

• Egile nagusia: Frankel, Oz (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006
• Gaiak: History of the Americas
• Sarrera elektronikoa: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 fac...