Title: The estate of social knowledge /
Authors: Brown, JoAnne, 1954-; Van Keuren, David K.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Social sciences United States History; Social sciences United States History; Social sciences Great Britain History; Social sciences Great Britain History
Contents: The estate of political knowledge : political science and the state / James Farr -- The great desert of the American mind : concepts of space and time and their historiographic implications / Andrew Kirby -- From natural history to social science : disciplinary development and redefinition in British anthropology, 1860-1910 / David K. van Keuren -- Mathematics and the economics profession in late Victorian England / Margaret Schabas -- The ideas of the past as tools for the present : the instrumental presentism of John R. Commons / Jeff E. Biddle -- Quandary of the quacks : the struggle for expert knowledge in American psychology, 1890-1940 / Jill G. Morawski and Gail A. Hornstein -- Mental measurements and the rhetorical force of numbers / JoAnne Brown -- The domestication of "culture" in interwar America, 1919-1941 / John S. Gilkeson, Jr.