The measure of merit
Subtitle: talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940
By: John Carson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780691017150
Subjects: Intelligence levels -- Social aspects -- France; Intelligence levels -- Social aspects -- United States; Intellect -- Social aspects -- France; Intellect -- Social aspects -- United States; Ability -- France; Ability -- United States; Equality -- France; Affirmative action programs in education -- France; Social stratification -- France; Social stratification -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-385) and index
Table of contents: title: Mental abilities and Republican cultures. "The most precious gift of nature" : natural aristocracy, Republican polities, and the meanings of talent ; Mental capacities and orthodox minds : mental science, education, and the politics of individual difference ; All men are created equal? : anthropology, intelligence, and the science of race; title: Individualizing intelligence through the science of difference. Between the art of the clinic and the precision of the laboratory : individual intelligence and the science of difference in Third Republic France ; American psychology and the seductions of IQ; title: Merit, matter, and mind. Out of the lab and into the world : intelligence goes to war ; Intelligence and the politics of merit between the wars