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The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations
Series: Verso World History
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Ideal for students and scholars of sociology, history, and ancient civilisations, as well as readers intrigued by the economic and social frameworks of early societies.
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See moreIn his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
In his neglected masterpiece, Weber brings sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome
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Max Weber is widely recognised as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology. Yet whilst his thought is often associated with the development of capitalism in Western Europe or the analysis of modernity, Weber also had a profound scholarly interest in ancient societies and the Near East.
The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations β Weber's neglected masterpiece which first appeared in German in 1897 and was reissued in 1909 β represents a fascinating and rigorous exercise to bring the newly-forged concepts of sociology to bear on civilizations as diverse as Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hebrew society in Israel, the city-states of classical Greece, the Hellenistic empire and, finally, republican and imperial Rome.
Blending, throughout the work, description of socio-economic structures with investigation into mechanisms and causes of the rise and decline of social systems, the volume ends with a magisterial explanatory essay on the underlying reasons for the ultimate fall of the Roman Empire and, with it, of the close of Antiquity itself.
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ISBN: 9781781681091
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Contributors:
- Translated by RI Frank
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 540g
Pages: 432
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Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany in 1864 and died in Munich in 1920. His works are legion, but among the better known that are translated into English are Economy and Society, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The City, and The Sociology of Religion.
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