The State and social investigation in Britain and the United States / edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner.
Other author/creator | Lacey, Michael James. |
Other author/creator | Furner, Mary O. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Washington. D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1993. |
Description | xii, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Series | Woodrow Wilson Center series Woodrow Wilson Center series. ^A249302 |
Contents | Social investigation, social knowledge, and the state : an introduction / Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner -- The science of the legislator : the Enlightenment heritage / Donald Winch -- Experts, investigators, and the state in 1860 : British social scientists through American eyes / Lawrence Goldman -- The world of the bureaus : government and the positivist project in the late nineteenth century / Michael J. Lacey -- The republican tradition and the new liberalism : social investigation, state building, and social learning in the Gilded Age / Mary O. Furner -- The state and social investigation in Britain, 1880-1914 / Roger Davidson -- Think tanks, antistatism, and democracy : the nonpartisan ideal and policy research in the United States, 1913-1987 / Donald T. Critchlow -- Social investigation and political learning in the financing of World War I / W. Elliot Brownlee. |
Contents | The state and social investigation in Britain between the world wars / Barry Supple -- War mobilization, institutional learning, and state building in the United States, 1917-1941 / Robert D. Cuff. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 92041255 |
ISBN | 0521416388 (hardback) |
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Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
Joyner | General Stacks | HV248 .S78 1993 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |