The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: MENTAL ABILITIES AND REPUBLICAN CULTURES -- Chapter One: "The most precious gift of nature": Natural Aristocracy, Republican Polities, and the Meanings of Talent -- Chapter Two: Mental Capacities and Orthodox Minds: Mental Science, Education, and the Politics of Individual Difference -- Chapter Three: All Men Are Created Equal? Anthropology, Intelligence, and the Science of Race -- PART II: INDIVIDUALIZING INTELLIGENCE THROUGH THE SCIENCE OF DIFFERENCE -- Chapter Four: Between the Art of the Clinic and the Precision of the Laboratory: Individual Intelligence and the Science of Difference in Third Republic France -- Chapter Five: American Psychology and the Seductions of IQ -- PART III: MERIT, MATTER, AND MIND -- Chapter Six: Out of the Lab and Into the World: Intelligence Goes to War -- Chapter Seven: Intelligence and the Politics of Merit between the Wars -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index