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