John Carson,Editors, ,The measurement of merit: Talents, intelligence and equality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940 (2007) Princeton University Press xvii + 401 pages, ISBN-10: 0-691-01715-0.

John Carson. The Measure of Merit: Talen

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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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.