An Essay on the History of Civil SocietyA. Millar and T. Cadell ... and A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1768 - 430 pages Generally regarded as the first English work in empirical sociology. It was frequently reprinted, both in England and America, and was translated into German and French. Ferguson, a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment, describes the stages of social evolution -- "the first natural history of society." This same edition was in the library of Thomas Jefferson, and it was advertised for sale in the Virginia Gazette, in Williamsburg. --from bookseller's description. |
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