A world from brave to new: Talcott Parsons and the war effort at Harvard University

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-289

  Gerhardt, Uta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; EUROPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; JAPAN; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WAR;

DEMOCRACY; EUROPE; FACULTY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; WAR;

EID: 0033147110     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6696(199922)35:3<257::AID-JHBS5>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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