The Aristocracy of Talent How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Wooldridge, Adrian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2021.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: A Revolutionary Idea -- PART ONE Priority, Degree and Place -- 1 Homo hierarchicus -- 2 Family Power -- 3 Nepotism, Patronage, Venality -- PART TWO Meritocracy before Modernity -- 4 Plato and the Philosopher Kings -- 5 China and the Examination State -- 6 The Chosen People -- 7 The Golden Ladder -- PART THREE The Rise of the Meritocracy -- 8 Europe and the Career Open to Talent -- 9 Britain and the Intellectual Aristocracy -- 10 The United States and the Republic of Merit 
505 8 |a PART FOUR The March of the Meritocrats -- 11 The Measurement of Merit -- 12 The Meritocratic Revolution -- 13 Girly Swots -- PART FIVE The Crisis of the Meritocracy -- 14 Against Meritocracy: The Revolt on the Left -- 15 The Corruption of the Meritocracy -- 16 Against Meritocracy: The Revolt on the Right -- 17 Asia Rediscovers Meritocracy -- Conclusion: Renewing Meritocracy -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index 
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