Calin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848-1914: Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge, Series: Balkan Studies Library, Volume: 28, pp. 278. Volume 3 - Issue 3

Victor Barsan*

• IFIN-HH, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania

Received: January 25, 2021   Published: February 04, 2021

Corresponding author: Victor Barsan, IFIN-HH, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2021.03.000165

 

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Abstract

This book is about the local, historical creation of the social in a very specific meaning of the term: The emergence of social expertise during the nineteenth century. The newly formed, modernizing Romanian Principalities tried to organize representationally, to build in “objectivity” through statistics, collections and self-displays.

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