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The Measure of Merit : Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 /
How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centur...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: MENTAL ABILITIES AND REPUBLICAN CULTURES
- One: "The most precious gift of nature"
- Two: Mental Capacities and Orthodox Minds
- Three: All Men Are Created Equal?
- Part II: INDIVIDUALIZING INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF DIFFERENCE
- Four: Between the Art of the Clinic and the Precision of the Laboratory
- Five: American Psychology and the Seductions of IQ
- Part III: MERIT, MATTER, AND MIND
- Six: Out of the Lab and Into the World
- Seven: Intelligence and the Politics of Merit between the Wars
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index