The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

by Thomas L. Haskell

Book Overview

The history of the rise of "social science."

Thomas L. Haskell's The Emergence of Professional Social Science signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by the author, explores the background and premises of the American Social Science Association (ASSA)--the first American group dedicated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801865735
• ISBN13: 9780801865732
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"