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

Author/creator Thurtle, Phillip
Format Book
Publication InfoSeattle : University of Washington Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Genetics--United States. --History.
Genetics--Social aspects. --United States.
Genetics--Economic aspects. --United States.
Genetics--History. --United States.
Capitalism--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.

SeriesIn vivo
In vivo (Seattle, Wash.) ^A765867
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.
General note"A Samuel & Althea Stroum book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.
LCCN 2007025518
ISBN9780295987569 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0295987561 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780295987507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0295987502 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QH428.2.U6 T48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold