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A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.

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In Age of System, Heyck has given science studies and the history of science a useful and needed book. It will be an important resource for those of us who study the history of the human sciences, and for anyone whose work is touched by the rise and fall of the "New Deal/Cold War consensus" American Science

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. High Modern Social Science
2. Patrons of the Revolution
3. The Magical Year 1956, Plue or Minus On
4. Producing Reason
5. Modernity and Social Change in American Social Science
6. A Model Science?
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9781421417103, 978-1421417103
      ISBN10: 1421417103
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      Higher education, tertiary education Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.

      Trade Review
      In Age of System, Heyck has given science studies and the history of science a useful and needed book. It will be an important resource for those of us who study the history of the human sciences, and for anyone whose work is touched by the rise and fall of the "New Deal/Cold War consensus" American Science

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. High Modern Social Science
      2. Patrons of the Revolution
      3. The Magical Year 1956, Plue or Minus On
      4. Producing Reason
      5. Modernity and Social Change in American Social Science
      6. A Model Science?
      Conclusion
      Appendix
      Notes
      Index

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