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Author Fleck, Christian, 1954-

Title A transatlantic history of the social sciences : robber barons, the Third Reich and the invention of empirical social research / Christian Fleck ; translated from the German by Hella Beister.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-383) and index.
Contents Building of an American Empire -- Fellowships and What They Entailed -- Institutional Support in Europe -- In the Shadow of Nazi Rule: Two Generation Units of Social Scientists -- Radio, Adorno and the Panel -- History of an Appropriation -- Reconnaissance Expeditions, Reconstruction Support and the Rare Return -- Red Threads.
Summary "From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition."--Publisher's description.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social sciences -- Research.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe.
Germans -- United States -- History.
Germans.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Germany.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Beister, Hella.
Added Title Transatlantische Bereicherungen. English
Other Form: Print version: Fleck, Christian, 1954- Transatlantische Bereicherungen. English. Transatlantic history of the social sciences. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011 9781849660518 (OCoLC)720753984
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