Written in 1908, "The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilizations" represents a sustained historical synthesis of a type unlike anything else in Weber's writing. Nor has any equivalent survey been written by a classical scholar since. Weber starts with a general introduction that explores the necessary concepts for relating 'economic theory' and 'ancient society'. He then proceeds to a chronologically ordered study of Mesopotamia and Egypt; Hebrew society in Israel; the classical city-states of Greece; the imperial Hellenic realms; and finally, the evolution of Roman society from the Republic to the rise and fall of the Empire.
- ISBN10 0902308084
- ISBN13 9780902308084
- Publish Date February 1976
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Nlb
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 421
- Language English