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A reinterpretation of the secularization of American culture, focusing on the political views of natural and social scientists from the late nineteenth and earl

This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkabl

Introduction -- American dreams : access, mobility, fairness -- Free minds : educating democratic citizens -- Hard facts : knowledge creation and checking power

From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science in recent years have fallen into the familiar c

Offers a groundbreaking analysis of the distinctive substantive, theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research in the field of comparativ