Cravens, Hamilton, ed. The Social Sciences Go to Washington: the Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age.(Book Review)

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Cravens, Hamilton, ed. The Social Sciences Go to Washington: The Politics of Knowledge in the Postmodern Age New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 256 pp., $62.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-8135-3340-6 cloth ISBN 0-8135-3341-4 paper Publication Date: December 2003

The Social Sciences Go To Washington grew out of a lunch conversation between Hamilton Cravens and another member of the history department at Iowa State University. They decided that it would be valuable to publish essays reflective of the department's work in its history of technology and science program. ...

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