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Trade ReviewA compelling collection of critical essays that sheds important new light on the nexus between the growth and expansion of the American social sciences and the rise of American power." - Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ''Call me Ishmael'': American Epic, American Grotesque, American Sublime and the American Social Sciences by John Kelly, Kurt Jacobsen, Marston Morgan Part I: Origins: The American Century and its New Sciences in War and Peace, at Home and Abroad 01 The Noble American Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development by Robert Vitalis 02 American Power and the New Mandarins Redux: Hegemony, Orthodoxy and IR by Kurt Jacobsen 03 Seeing Like an Area Specialist by Bruce Cumings 04 The Imperialism of Categories: Situating Knowledge in a Globalizing World by Susanne Rudolph Part II: Anomalies: The Use and Abuse of Political Economy 05 The Misuse of Numbers: Audits, Quantification, and the Obfuscation of Politics by James C. Scott and Matthew Light 06 The Use and Abuse of Mathematical Economics by Michael Hudson 07 How to Bring Economics into the 3rd Millennium by Edward Fullbrook Part III: Predicaments: Some Consequences of Applied Social Science 08 Power after Nuclear Weapons by Anne Harrington 09 Sociology and the Pax Americana (1945-1975) by George Steinmetz 10 Translating Social Science for China: Qu Qiubai and History's Coffin by Tani Barlow 11 The Golden Bough at Breton Woods: Anticipating the Decline and Fall of American Anthropology by Marston Morgan 12 Beyond National Liberalism: Self-Determination and the World of Pax Americana by John Kelly Part IV: Expeditions: After Reality Capsizes Theory 13 South Asia and American Power by Lloyd Rudolph 14 The Ghosts of Anticommunism and Neoliberalism: East Asian Studies in the 21st Century by Michael Bourdaghs 15 Counterfeit COIN, and the State of Nature Effect by Marshall Sahlins Conclusion: Starbuck's Dilemma and Academic Expertise by John Kelly, Kurt Jacobsen Index About the editors and contributors
