Ruling Minds : Psychology in the British Empire /
The British Empire used intelligence tests, laboratory studies, and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of subjects in distant cultures. Challenging assumptions about the role of scientific knowledge in the exercise of power, Erik Linstrum shows that psychology did more to reveal the limi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | The British Empire used intelligence tests, laboratory studies, and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of subjects in distant cultures. Challenging assumptions about the role of scientific knowledge in the exercise of power, Erik Linstrum shows that psychology did more to reveal the limits of imperial authority than to strengthen it. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (286 p.) : 20 halftones |
ISBN: | 9780674089150 9783110485103 9783110485158 9783110638585 |
Acceso: | restricted access |