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FOUR for FOUR from: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEEN-EIGHTIES: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom
lIelen Merrell Lynd
Introduction by
Gerald M, Pomper
'In this remarkable book the co-author of both Middletown and ilS sequel applied her analytical skills to a
key decade in British history. From the inchoate source materials of a particularjy complicated era, Lynd
crafted an extended essay around a central theme that retains its value as a bold act of historical synthesis,
.. It is precisely because books such as England in the
Eighteen-Eighties
establishes persuasive arguments
that thematic counterpoints ever emerge, Perhaps the best testimony of this book's importance might be
that, forty years after its initial publication, ilS themes continue to occupy historians' agenda':
Professor
D,
L.LeMahieu
ISBN:
0-88738-004-2 (cloth)
$34.95
YOUNG GERMANY: A History of the German Youth Movement
Walter Laqueur
"If
any age group has attained emancipation in the twentieth century, it is youth, Laqueur isolates the ability
of youth to generate their own activities and organizations as an essential feature of the German youth
movement ... ,Laqueur's study remains relevant to new research. He considers the number of youth
leaders and youth social workers who had earlier taken part in the activities of the free youth movement. , ,
One must recognize the potential of
Young Germany
for historians of social history and of social
psychology. He shows how well the rebellious and vigorous youth groups shaped altitudes toward a range
of national and personal issues':
Professor Paul Weindling
ISBN:
0-88738-002-6 (cloth)
$28,95
ISBN:
0-87855-960-4 (paper)
260pp.
$12,95
COMING TO MY SENSES: The Autobiography of a Sociologist
George Caspar 1I0mans
"This book is graced by expository eloquence, frequent flashes of sharp wit, and literary expertise, It pULS
on display Homans' cultural and ideological conservativism, his strongly voiced opinions of views with
which he disagrees and at times, what strikes me as unrestrained acerbity. ' . George Caspar Homans is a
poet and student of literature ... As a sociologist he is also a man of science writ large. His autobiography
is enhanced by sprightly observations in passing of subjects ranging from making martinis to religion, by
candid citation of his tactlessness and impudence, and, as a fellow-chronicler I am pleased to note,
by
repeated reference to the role of luck in his career:'
Professor Charles H, Page
ISBN:
0-88738-001-8 (cloth)
536pp.
$32,95
THE TRANSFORMATION OF DEMOCRACY
Vilfredo Pareto
Charles Powers, editor
"Whatdoes the present book have to offer?
It
provides the current, almost day-by-day judgments of a great
sociologist and economist on a brief but catastrophic period of European history, They arc often judgments
already expressed in Trattato, but they are always pungent and sometimes prescient, , . The editor has
provided a useful brief life of Pareto ... It is well worth reading for the insights, even amusing insights of a
wise man commenting at the end of his life on the evcnlS of some of the crucial years of this century:'
Professor George
C.
flomans
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ISBN:
0-87855-949-3 (paper)
128pp.
$14,95
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