Max Weber in America

by Lawrence A. Scaff

Book Overview

Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about the trip was Marianne Weber's faithful but not always reliable 1926 biography of her husband.Max Weber in America carefully reconstructs this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691147795
• ISBN13: 9780691147796
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"