Governmentality and the mastery of territory in nineteenth-century America

Abstract

Introduction 1. Governmentality in context Part I: 2. The formation of governmental objects in late nineteenth century American discourse 3. Francis A. Walker and the formation of American governmental subjectivity 4. American manhood and the strains of governmental subjectivity Part II: 5. The spatial politics of governmental knowledge 6. An American exceptionalist political economy 7. Manhood, space and governmental regulation Conclusion.