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Descriptive sociology, or, Groups of sociological facts

Title
Descriptive sociology, or, Groups of sociological facts / classified and arranged by Herbert Spencer ; compiled and abstracted by David Duncan ... Richard Scheppig ... and James Collier [and others].
Author
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
Publication
London : Williams and Norgate, 1873-1934.

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Additional Authors
  • Duncan, David, 1839-1923.
  • Scheppig, Richard, 1845-1903.
  • Collier, James, 1846-1925.
  • Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919.
  • Goligher, William Alexander, 1870-
  • Tedder, Henry Richard, 1850-1924
  • Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers), 1864-1954.
  • Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942
  • Torday, Emil, 1875-1931
  • Alton, E. H.
Description
15 volumes; 50 cm
Alternative Title
Sociology, Descriptive
Subject
  • Social history
  • Anthropology
  • Civilization
  • Social Conditions
  • Anthropology
  • Civilization
  • social history
  • anthropology
  • civilization
  • Social history
Note
  • Cover-title (only no. 9-10, 12 have t.-p.)
  • "List [or 'Titles'] of the books from which extracts have been taken," in each part.
  • No. 3 [new edition] 1925, and no. 9-10 edited after the author's death by Henry R. Tedder, no. 11-13 issued by Mr. Spencer's trustees.
  • Parts 1-8 were issued also with the American imprint, New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1873-1881.
  • The parts are numbered consecutively in the order of publication: no. 1, 2, 3 [etc.] and (in part) also serially in three "divisions": Div. I, Uncivilized societies, pt. 1, [2, etc.]-A; Div. II. Civilized societies--extinct or decayed, part 1, [2, etc.]-B; Div. III. Civilized societies--recent or still flourishing, pt. 1, [2, etc.]-C.
Contents
  • No. 1. English, by J. Collier. 1873. -- no. 2. Ancient Mexicans, Central Americans, Chibchas, and ancient Peruvians, R.R. Scheppig. March 1874. -- no. 3. Types of lowest races, Negritto races and Malayo-Polynesian races, by D. Duncan. May 1874. -- no. 3. -- [revised; an almost entirely new work] by D. Duncan; ed. by H.R. Tedder. 1925. -- no. 4. African races, by D. Duncan. March 1875. -- no. 4. -- by E. Torday; a re-issue of the volume originally comp. by Dr. D. Duncan, entirely rewritten. Nov. 1930. -- no. 5. Asiatic races, by D. Duncan. Oct. 1876. -- no. 6. American races, by D. Duncan. Oct. 1876. -- no. 6. -- 2d ed. Feb. 1885. -- no. 7. Hebrews and Phoeniciens, by R. Scheppig. Aug. 1880.
  • No. 8. French, by J. Collier. Oct. 1881. -- no. 9. Chinese, by E.C.T. Werner; ed. by H.R. Tdder. Nov. 1910. -- no. 10. Greeks: Hellenic era, by J.P. Mahaffy and W.A. Goligher; ed by H.R. Tedder. 1910. -- no. 11. Ancinet Egyptians, by W.F. Petrie. 1925. -- no. 12. Hellenistic Greeks, by the late Sir J.B. Mahaffy and W.A. Goliher. 1928. -- no. 13. Mesopotamia (the ancient inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates lands) By R. Levy. 1929. -- no. 15. Romans, by E.H. Alton and W.A. Goligher. 1934.
LCCN
09034189
OCLC
  • ocm02872937
  • 2872937
  • SCSB-651645
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library