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The measure of merit : talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940
- Title
- The measure of merit : talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940 / John Carson.
- Author
- Carson, John, 1954-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 401 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Intelligence levels > Social aspects > France
- Social stratification > United States
- Equality > France
- Affirmative action programs in education > France
- Social stratification > France
- Ability > France
- Ability > United States
- Intellect > Social aspects > United States
- Intelligence levels > Social aspects > United States
- Intellect > Social aspects > France
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-385) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-913
- ISBN
- 0691017158 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780691017150 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006006604
- 9780691017150
- OCLC
- 64595845
- Author
- Carson, John, 1954-
- Title
- The measure of merit : talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940 / John Carson.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-385) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780691017150
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-913