Description
Book SynopsisA highly accomplished historian, Heyck relays this complicated story with unusual clarity.
Trade ReviewIn 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 ContentsAcknowledgments
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
