The Making of Society: An Outline of Sociology (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 183)

xviii, 923 pp. A selection of influential works on sociology, edited with a preface and introduction by V.F. Calverton. Includes chapters by Confucius; Lao Tse; Plato; Aristotle; St. Augustine; Giambattista Vico; Niccolo Machiavelli; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Thomas Paine; Baron de Montesquieu; Adam Smith; T.R. Malthus; John Stuart Mill; Auguste Comte; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; Michael Bakunin; Charles Darwin; Henry Thomas Buckle; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Emile Durkheim; Ludwig Gumplowicz; Franz Oppenheimer; Nicolai Lenin; Leon Trotsky; Waclaw Machajaski; Peter Kropotkin; Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini; Herbert Spencer; Max Weber; Werner Sombart; Vilfredo Pareto; Lester Ward; William Graham Sumner; Thorsten Veblen; F.H. Giddings; J.M. Robertson; Harry Elmer Barnes; R.M. MacIver; Malcom M. Willey and Melville S. Herskovits; Edward A. Ross; William Fielding Ogburn; C.H. Cooley; Wilson D. Wallis; John Dewey; Huntington Cairns; Graham Wallas; F.H. Hankins; John Strachey; Stuart Chase; Max Eastman; Sidney Hook; V.F. Calverton; Max Nomad; C.H. Douglas. Biographical sketches of the contributing authors follow text.