The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations

Informationen zum Autor Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1864 and died in Munich in 1920. His works are legion, but among the better known that are translated into English are Economy and Society, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The City, and The Sociology of Religion. Klappentext Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations - Weber's neglected masterpiece, which first appeared in German in 1897 and was reissued in 1909 - represents a fascinating and rigorous exercise to bring the newly forged concepts of sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hebrew society in Israel, the city-states of classical Greece, the Hellenistic empire and, finally, republican and imperial Rome. Blending, throughout the work, description of socio-economic structures with investigation into mechanisms and causes of the rise and decline of social systems, the volume ends with a magisterial explanatory essay on the underlying reasons for the ultimate fall of the Roman Empire and, with it, of the close of Antiquity itself. Zusammenfassung In his neglected masterpiece! Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia! Egypt! Greece and Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Max Weber, Max/ Frank Weber
• Assisted by: R. I. Frank (Translation), RI Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 06.08.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9781781681091
• ISBN: 978-1-78168-109-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: World history; World history; Verso World History Series; Verso World History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Ancient World, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Rural communities / rural life