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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      02 February 2010
      16 January 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511628092
      9780521382021
      9780521022279
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628092
      Dimensions:
      (204 x 159 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 400 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.558kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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    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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