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The Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context, Series Number 19) Reprint Edition
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- ISBN-10052142836X
- ISBN-13978-0521428361
- EditionReprint
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateMarch 27, 1992
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 1.34 x 9 inches
- Print length536 pages
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"...rich and complex....a book of almost heroic proportions." ISIS
"No brief summary can do justice to Ross's complex argument. Sometimes her portraits of individual thinkers are provocative, and they are always interesting. Her research appears thorough within the confines she has laid down for the book as a whole." History of Education Quarterly
"The Origins of American Social Science is the product of many years' work, and it is easy to see why. To master not one but three disciplines (and parts of still others) is no mean task. In addition, Ross's scholarship is awesome, particularly her command of the secondary literature, often located in specialized and obscure journals." Annals of Scholarship
"To have managed a basic knowledge of every major social science discipline is daunting enough, to do so with both a biographical intimacy and an historical sensibility of the pioneers of the disciplines is truly astonishing. And this is all done with a literary grace that makes The Origins of American Social Science a good read." Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University
"This is a big, complex, synthetic study by one of our ablest intellectual historians. It deserves the attention of all those interested in American history, social thought, and liberal theory." Mary O. Furner, Northern Illinois University, and author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905
"Ross has produced a profound, richly detailed, and erudite history of the origins and development of economics, political science, and sociology in the US between 1850 and 1929....The sheer magnitude of this book is staggering." Choice
"No one has written more illuminatingly of the way in which assumptions of time and history infused and constrained modern American social thought. Following that thread beneath the sprawling mazes of interdisciplinary debate, Ross has written the first truly integrated intellectual history of the social sciences. Her core, densely informative narratives are models of wise and judicious scholarship. Origins is a major achievement, the synthesis for our time." Daniel T. Rodgers in the Intellectual History Newsletter
"A first-rate intellectual history chronicling the emergence of the secular social sciences in American higher education....a richly detailed history of the economic theories, sociological disputations and political science wranglings that characterized, and to some degree shaped, the development of the social sciences in American universities....an important and stimulating work." The New York Times Book Review
"This is a complex and important book....This is intellectual history at its very best, never failing to connect ideas to a 'real world' of economic power, highbrow culture, and professional anxieties." Canadian Journal of History
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (March 27, 1992)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 536 pages
- ISBN-10 : 052142836X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521428361
- Item Weight : 1.72 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.34 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,206,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #898 in Political History (Books)
- #3,089 in Sociology (Books)
- #9,257 in History & Theory of Politics
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