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, buttressing
the claim of the state to represent its populace, government
discovered an unintended consequence: it could exercise only
limited control over the process of inquiry, the behavior of its
emissaries as investigators or authors, and the fate of official
reports once issued and widely circulated.
This study contributes to current debates over knowledge, print
culture, and the growth of the state as well as the nature and
history of the "public sphere." It interweaves innovative,
theoretical discussions into meticulous, historical analysis.
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