The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850 (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)

by Lars Magnusson (Editor), Björn Wittrock (Editor), J.Heilbron (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $255.89

  This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850.