W.G. Runciman

W.G. Runciman has recently published The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection and Great Books, Bad Arguments: ‘Republic’, ‘Leviathan’ and ‘The Communist Manifesto’.

In the LRB Archive:

• Blame Lloyd George: England 1914-51 · 27 May 2010

  • Parties and People: England 1914-51 by Ross McKibbin

• Diary: Exit Blair · 24 May 2007

• What happened to the Labour Party?: The difference between then and now · 22 June 2006

• Why are we here?: The Biology of Belief · 7 February 2002

  • Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors by Pascal Boyer

• Darwinian Soup: The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore · 10 June 1999

  • The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

• Diary · 10 December 1998

• Diary · 4 June 1998

• Some Afterthoughts on the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in England and Wales · 10 November 1994

• Latent Discontent · 11 June 1992

  • Solidarity and Schism: ‘The Problem of Disorder’ in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology by David Lockwood

• Diary · 10 January 1991

• Diary · 22 November 1990

• Ross McKibbin and the Rise of Labour · 24 May 1990

  • The Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain 1880-1950 by Ross McKibbin

• Diary · 8 December 1988

• What next? · 27 October 1988

  • Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History by Ernest Gellner

• Diary · 4 August 1988

• Diary · 23 June 1988

• Diary · 5 May 1988

• Diary · 17 March 1988

• Viva Alan Knight · 15 October 1987

  • The Mexican Revolution. Vol. I: Porfirians, Liberals and Revolutionaries by Alan Knight
  • The Mexican Revolution. Vol. II: Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction by Alan Knight

• Diary · 3 September 1987

• The Old Question · 19 February 1987

  • The Sources of Social Power. Vol I: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann

• W.G. Runciman on the tendency of human societies to form varieties · 5 June 1986

• Grand Theories · 17 October 1985

  • The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner
  • Classes by Erik Olin Wright
  • Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West by John Hall

• Congenial Aspirations · 4 October 1984

  • The Theory of Communicative Action. Vol. One: Reason and the Rationalisation of Society by Jurgen Habermas, translated by Thomas McCarthy

• X marks the snob · 17 May 1984

  • Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA by Paul Fussell

• Hackney · 20 October 1983

  • Inside the Inner City by Paul Harrison
  • Brighton on the Rocks: Monetarism and the Local State
  • The Wealth Report edited by Frank Field

• Henry and Caroline · 1 April 1983

  • The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook: The First Guide to What Really Matters in Life by Ann Barr and Peter York

• On the State of the Left · 17 December 1981

  • The Forward March of Labour Halted? by Eric Hobsbawm, Ken Gill and Tony Benn

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