George Weisz offers a comprehensive analysis of the French university system during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examining t

The first full-scale treatment of a period of dramatic expansion in French science.

Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many proble

Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.

This departure from the norm reveals a side to Proust that was capable of observing the class struggle in the Third Republic, a possibility that the author disc