Publisher's Synopsis
A Systematic Source Book of Rural Sociology, Volume 2 was first published in 1931.This three-volume work gives the English-speaking reader a world view of rural sociology by brining together translations of the most important writings on rural life in all languages, from the earliest times to the present day. The readings in each chapter are preceded by explanatory introductions, outlining the problems that are to be discussed and stating and criticizing the principal theories that have been advanced concerning these problems.Among the readings included are those from the sacred books and ancient writings of eastern peoples, from Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Ibn-Khaldun, Quesnay, and Rousseau among writers of the past; and among modern and contemporary investigators of rural problems Georg Simmel, Oswald Spengler, Rene Maunier, Henri See, Henri Pirenne, Werner Sombart, Georg von Mayr, Nikolai Lenin, Frederic le PLay, J.H. Kohlbrugge, T.H. Stevenson, Paul Meuriot, R. Livi, A. Hill, A. Demangeon, A. Schafir, S.N. Prokopovitch, Anant S. Altekar, Benoy Kumar Sarkar, Shiro Kawada, and scores of other authors.
