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Introduction; Part I. European Social Science in Antebellum America: 1.The discovery of modernity; 2. The American exceptionalist vision; Part II.The Crisis of American Exceptionalism, 1865-1896: 3. Establishment of thesocial science disciplines; 4. The threat of socialism in economics andsociology; Part III. Progressive Social Science, 1896-1914: 5. The liberalrevision of American exceptionalism; 6. Marginalism and historicism ineconomics; 7. Toward a sociology of social control; 8. Fromhistorico-politics to political science; Part IV. American Social Science AsThe Study Of Natural Process, 1908-1929: 9. Modernist historicalconsciousness and American liberal change; 10. The advent of scientism;Epilogue; Footnote abbreviations; Footnotes.