Social Science and the Ignoble Savage

Klappentext Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, with emphasis on the influence of literature about savage societies. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The four stages theory and its prehistory; 2. 'In the beginning all the World was America'; 3. The French pioneers of the 1750s; 4. The Scottish pioneers of the 1750s; 5. The ignoble savage and 'the history of rude nations'; 6. Revisionists, poets, and economists; Afterword; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald L. Meek, Meek Ronald L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521143295
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14329-5
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 219 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Society and culture: general