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

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

xiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"A Samuel & Althea Stroum book."

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index.