Social science and the ignoble savage
Auteur :
Meek, Ronald L.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521143295
Date de publication :
3 févr. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
330 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.