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The small series “AVKB-Edition” will additionally bring together some texts, monographs and bibliographies that are out of print or difficult to access and make them available as reprints in hardback book form.


SUMNER,W.G., The Challenge of Facts and other Essays. New Haven 1914.

SUMNER, William Graham,

The Challenge of Facts and other Essays. Ed. by Albert Galloway Keller. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1914.

8vo. XII, 450 S. Neuer Halbleinen (mit Buntpapierbezug).

Insgesamt versammelt der Band 31 Aufsätze Sumners, darunter “The Demand for Men” und “The Significance of the Demand for Men”, “Introductory Lecture to Course in Political and Social Science”, “Sociology as a College Subject” oder “Power and Progress”.

Order Number: 8196AB

Rare Book: EUR 75,-- 


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