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Author Staum, Martin S.

Title Nature and nurture in French social sciences, 1859-1914 and beyond [electronic resource] / Martin S. Staum.

Imprint Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.

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Description xii, 261 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., ports.
Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 53
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 53.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-251) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction to the Nature-Nuture Debate -- 2. The Ethnographers -- 3. The Anthropologists -- 4. Ribot and Psychological Heredity -- 5. Heredity and Milieu in the Revue philosophique -- 6. Alfred Binet: From Measuring Heads to Testing Intelligence -- 7. The Non-Durkeimian Sociologists -- 8. Reorientation of Institutions -- 9. Echoes in the Vichy Era -- 10. Conclusion.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Social sciences -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Social sciences -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Nature and nurture -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Nature and nurture -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0773538925
9780773538924
9780773585942 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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