Rindzevičiūtė: Power of Systems
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25364/11.3:2018.1.5Keywords:
history of the social sciences in the Cold War eraAbstract
Book review of:
Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. 2016. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2016.
306 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-5017-0318-8
Price: $ 49.95
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