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Social Science and the Ignoble Savage - Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Meek, Ronald L. (University of Leicester)
Social Science and the Ignoble Savage - Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Meek, Ronald L. (University of Leicester)
Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, an eighteenth-century theory of socio-economic development, from its emergence with French and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers to its modification by critics and revisionists. He argues the theory was shaped by literature about savage societies, especially American Indian.
256 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 3, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780521143295 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 138 × 216 × 17 mm · 364 g |