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Professor Meek traces the prehistory of the four stages theory, an eighteenth-century theory of socio-economic development, from its emergence with French and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers to its modification by critics and revisionists. He argues the theory was shaped by literature about savage societies, especially American Indian.Meek, R. L. is the author of 'Social Science and the Ignoble Savage', published 1976 under ISBN 9780521209694 and ISBN 0521209692.
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