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Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief

By John A. Hall , I. C. Jarvie (editors)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0521382025, 9780521382021
LCC
HM101 .T677 1992
Open Library ID
OL1869623M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9672010 bytes)
Pages
400\394
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world, and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.

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