Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 251pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine in original printed price-clipped dust jacket. Charlton examines the fortunes of positivist thought during the period of its greates influence in nineteenth-century France. Minor staining on boards, tail of spine slightly bumped. Dj spine and outer edges sunned. Tight copy with dust jacket and binding in good+, interior in very good condition.

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Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 30970
Title: Positivist Thought in France During the Second Empire 1852-1870
Author: Charlton, D. G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 1959
Keywords: 19th century france, social science, scientism, sociology, western philosophy, french politics, french government, emile littre, claude bernard, comte, renan, taine, french second empire

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