Social Science and the Ignoble Savage - Ronald L. Meek - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2011 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
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.
