Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire

Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire
ISBN-10
0674915305
ISBN-13
9780674915305
Category
History
Language
English
Published
2016-01-04
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Erik Linstrum

Description

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.

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