John Carson. The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 422 pp. $39.50 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01715-0

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• Book ID: 102338154
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20258

✦ Synopsis

with the material for presenting what is probably the best researched case of the mutual constitution of the psychological and the social order. In view of the fact that other psychological concepts are as much products of history as "intelligence," this book may well come to play an exemplary role.