Ruling Minds - Psychology in the British Empire

Informationen zum Autor Erik Linstrum is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Klappentext The British Empire used intelligence tests, laboratory studies, and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of subjects in distant cultures. Challenging assumptions about the role of scientific knowledge in the exercise of power, Erik Linstrum shows that psychology did more to reveal the limits of imperial authority than to strengthen it. Zusammenfassung The British Empire used intelligence tests! laboratory studies! and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of subjects in distant cultures. Challenging assumptions about the role of scientific knowledge in the exercise of power! Erik Linstrum shows that psychology did more to reveal the limits of imperial authority than to strengthen it.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Linstrum
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780674088665
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08866-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; British Empire, PSYCHOLOGY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Psychology, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism