The emergence of genetic rationality : space, time, & information in American biological science, 1870-1920 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thurtle, Phillip
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2007.
Series:	In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Subjects:	Genetics > United States > History. Genetics > Social aspects > United States. Genetics > Economic aspects > United States. Genetics > history Capitalism History, 19th Century History, 20th Century SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Evolution. SCIENCE > General. Genetics Genetics > Social aspects Genetica. United States Verenigde Staten. History
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Table of 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.

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