Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.
Contents
Middle class mores : Beaufort's bastards -- Breeding true : processing a new elite -- The political economy of natural history -- Homologous networks of exchange : the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange -- Categorizing experience : space and time in nineteenth-century natural history -- The Pacific Railway survey : the subject in the panoramic mode -- Storied pasts -- The plot thickens : the political economic dimensions of biological stories -- Wandering and narrative -- Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex -- Writing, goods, and memory -- Industrial perspectives : Luther Burbank -- Record keeping : a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
