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Author Thurtle, Phillip.

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

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 381 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series In vivo
In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Note "A Samuel & Althea Stroum book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Genetics -- United States -- History.
Genetics.
United States.
History.
Genetics -- Social aspects -- United States.
Genetics -- Social aspects.
Genetics -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Genetics -- history.
Capitalism.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Thurtle, Phillip. Emergence of genetic rationality. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2007 9780295987569 (DLC) 2007025518 (OCoLC)145014795
ISBN 9780295990347 (electronic book)
0295990341 (electronic book)
9780295987569
0295987561
9780295987507
0295987502