Transition to modernity: essays on power, wealth, and belief

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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hall, John A. 1949- (HerausgeberIn), Jarvie, I. C. 1937- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1992
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 383 pages)
ISBN:9780511628092
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511628092