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Social Science for What?
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
ISBN: 9780262539050
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 7, 2020
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance.
Why America Is Not a New Rome
ISBN: 9780262526852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2014
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.
The Landscape of Reform
Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America
ISBN: 9780262512558
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism—as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Aldo Leopold—and how it can inform a new, civic-minded environmentalism today.
Social Science for What?
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
ISBN: 9780262539050
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 7, 2020
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance.
Why America Is Not a New Rome
ISBN: 9780262526852
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2014
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.
The Landscape of Reform
Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America
ISBN: 9780262512558
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 23, 2009
A study of the pragmatic roots of American environmentalism—as seen in the work of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and Aldo Leopold—and how it can inform a new, civic-minded environmentalism today.