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The Historical View

M. I. Finley The Agrarian Sociology of Ancient Civilisations Max Weber, translated by R. I. Frank (NLB £8.50) If it is proper to borrow from economics the term 'macro-theory'......

Summer Crimes

atrick Cosgrave 'Un pretentious and 'straightforward' are h Dat ronising words to use in a review. I would i , , av e to say something like 'John Buchan s "milers are vastly......