Unavailable in an decent, affordable edition for many years

Weber is one of the most important social scientists of the last two centuries and responsible for extremely important theories such as the 'protestant ethic'

His work is taught in sociology departments around the world

General Economic History is his major work on the history of capitalism and stands in a line of incredibly distinguished other big books on capitalism, such as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Marx's Capital, to whom Weber is often compared

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Keith Tribe

Weber's Conceptual Preface appears here for the first time in English, translated by Keith Tribe