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"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopédie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Historical Evolutionary Approach in the Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 2 - G.S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building -- 3 - The Hindu Nationalist Sociology of G.S. Ghurye -- 4 - Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and the Nation: Situating G.S. Ghurye -- 5 - Radha Kamal Mukerjee -A Note -- 6 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries: Founding Fathers of Sociology in India -- 7 - Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology -- 8 - Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and Its Relevance To-Day: Some Reflections -- 9 - Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in the Sociology of D.P. Mukerji -- 10 - D.P. Mukerji 1894-1961: A Centenary Tribute -- 11 - D.P. Mukerji and the Middle Class in India -- 12 - On Srinivas's 'Sociology' -- 13 - The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading 'Backwards' from Srinivas to Weber -- 14 - M.N. Srinivas, Max Weber, and Functionalism -- 15 - Disjunctions between Field, Method and Concept: An Appraisal of M.N. Srinivas -- 16 - On M.N. Srinivas and Indian Sociology: The Challeng eof Understanding Indian Society-Critique, Generosity and Transformations -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained autonomous. Fried's work challenges this assumption. She examines the inscriptions, coins, temple archives, and literary texts from Babylon, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Judah and concludes that there was no local autonomy. The only people with power in the Empire were Persians and their appointees, and this was true for Judah as well. The Judean priesthood achieved its longed-for independence only much later, under the Maccabees

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Case for Inclusiveness -- Chapter 2: Primacy of Action -- Chapter 3: Economic Action -- Chapter 4: Methodological Outposts -- Chapter 5: Departure from Convention -- Chapter 6: In Practice -- Chapter 7: In Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.