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 | A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society (1st Edition) by Mary Poovey Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-67526-2 / 0226675262 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67526-8 / 9780226675268 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 an astonishing array of texts and ide | |