Abstract
A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books offers a reflective look at the evolution of the social sciences from 1947 to 2016. The book is simultaneously a collection of contemporary book reviews, a chronology of important intellectual landmarks in the social sciences, a history of how its constituent disciplines sometimes ignored and sometimes learned from each other, and a revelation about the intellectual circumstances of French social scientific scholarship toward the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century. This retrospective’s qualitative focus provides a valuable, if selective, insight into French academic thought and invites readers, especially quantitative scholars, to engage critically with its inclusions and notable omissions (such as minimal representation of female authors and studies in economics and the complete omission of historical demography).