A transatlantic history of the social sciences : robber barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research /
"From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition."--Publisher's description |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-383) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849664332 1849664331 9781849660501 1849660506 9781849662932 1849662932 1283195038 9781283195034 9786613195036 6613195030 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781849662932 |