The Allison Commission and the national map: towards a Republic of Knowledge in late nineteenth-century America

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-42

  Kirsch, Scott ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Government Science; Governmentality; Hilary A. Herbert; John Wesley Powell; Regulation; Territoriality; U.S. Geological Survey

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; LEGISLATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SOVEREIGNTY; TERRITORIAL PLANNING; TERRITORIALITY; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73749087928     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: 10958614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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