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The measure of merit : talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940 / John Carson

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Carson, John, 1954-
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
xvii, 401 pages ; 25 cm

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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.
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ISBN
0691017158 (alk. paper)
9780691017150 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-385) and index.
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