Thomas L. Haskell

Thomas Haskell is the McCann Professor of History at Rice University and the author of Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History. (December 1997)

From the Review

December 4, 1997: The New Aristocracy

Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Elliott A. Krause

October 13, 1977: Power to the Experts

The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America by Burton J. Bledstein

December 11, 1975: Funds for Clio (letter)

October 2, 1975: The True & Tragical History of 'Time on the Cross'

Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross by Herbert G. Gutman

"A Symposium on Time on the Cross" edited by Gary M. Walton

Reckoning with Slavery: Critical Essays in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery by Paul A. David, by Herbert G. Gutman, by Richard Sutch, by Peter Temin, by Gavin Wright, with an introduction by Kenneth M. Stampp

September 19, 1974: Were Slaves More Efficient? Some Doubts About 'Time on the Cross'

Books by Thomas L. Haskell

Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History (1998)
The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority (1977)