Making Minds Modern: The Politics of Psychology in the British Empire, 1898-1970
This dissertation describes how innovations in the science of mind -- laboratory measurements, psychoanalysis, and mental testing -- changed the ideas and institutions of British imperialism. Psychology did not function as a tool of empire in any straightforward way: in many cases, the knowledge it...
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Harvard University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10597 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:10381391 |