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David E. Shi Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 Oxford University Press, 1996

M. Poovey A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society(Chicago, 1998) How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact , ranging across..