Social Science and the Ignoble Savage

by Ronald L. Meek

Book Overview

This 1976 book is concerned with the emergence, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, of a new theory of socio-economic development, based on the idea that the key factor in the developmental process was the way in which men made their living. Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, from its emergence with French and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers to its modification by critics and revisionists. He argues the theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521143292
• ISBN13: 9780521143295
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"