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Agricultural information and empire building in the late 19th century: National information policy, the people, and the USDA

The information work of the United States Department of Agriculture in its first years as an independent federal agency---1862 to 1888---was exceptional and contested. It engaged the public to collect information relevant to farming, markets, and trade. Through a close historical analysis of the Department's annual reports and supplementary materials, I examine that information work and situate it within the context of the emergence of the modern state, American empire, and industrializing capitalism using Marxist historiography and the political economy of information as my conceptual framework.