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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Max Weber's The City (Die Stadt), a foundational text of urban sociology and comparative historical sociology, examining the Occidental versus Oriental city, the city as a fusion of fortress and market, the medieval commune, and urban citizenship. Drawn from Economy and Society. Translated and edited by Don Martindale and Gertrud Neuwirth, the standard English edition. 242 pages. Very good to near fine condition. Text complete and unmarked, no underlining or highlighting, no owner's name.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Max Weber's early twentieth-century study of the religions and civilization of India is a great pioneering adventure in the sociology of ancient India. Weber's insight and analysis-especially his application of the sociological perspective to the work of classical Indologists and the religious texts available to him-were to add much to the store of the social scientist. Later, historians and archaeologists were to confirm a surprising number of Weber's theories. The central concern of this and other of Weber's studies of countries we today describe as "developing" was with the obstacles to industrialization and modernization. Weber anticipated by several decades a problem that has come to occupy the post-World War II world. Why had these countries failed to display the full consequences of those rationalizing tendencies which, to Weber's mind had so powerful an affinity with the scientific-technical transformation of the West? He isolated religious institutions and the key social strata which mediate them to wider society as crucial for the original formation of social-psychological orientations to the practical concerns of life and, hence, for receptivity or resistance to industrialization.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ; 148pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Analysis of tone systems, scales, chords, systems of notation and the development of instruments, which point up the observation that music in the West developed through the continued application of scientific thought to musical expression. Translated from the German.…