Social Science and the Ignoble Savage

Ronald L. (University of Leicester) Meek

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521143295
ISBN-10
0521143292
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-02-03
Pages
256
Dimensions
216x138x17
Weight
364