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Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field this text presents a critical history of sociology in Britain, a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion fragmentation and explosion of the discipline during the past century.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field this text presents a critical history of sociology in Britain, a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion fragmentation and explosion of the discipline during the past century

Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about brothers. She draws together expressions of brotherly love and rivalry around an idealized notion of fraternity: fraternal pietas--the traditional Roman virtue that combined affection and duty in kinship. Romans believed that the relationship between brothers was especi