Force, Fate, and Freedom serves as an introduction to historical sociology, as well as a critical analysis of the belief in economic and political progress through social knowledge. Reinhard Bendix offers a development of the historicist approach to social change first championed by Max Weber, and presents an overview of the foundations of political authority in Japan, Russia, Germany, France, and England.
- ISBN10 0520049314
- ISBN13 9780520049314
- Publish Date 1 January 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 161
- Language English