Max Weber: The Sorceror's Apprentice

The new definitive appreciation of the work of the great social scientist Max Weber by Damian Valdez, Cambridge political historian, who has been researching it for many years. 

Should become a landmark work on the meaning and value of Max Weber's extraordinarily wide-ranging set of intellectual excursions -- into political struggle, into the world religions, into rural life and the peasantry, into the bureaucratic state and the rule of law. It places his ideas squarely in his times, examining how they evolved in relationship with the books he read, the events he witnessed and the conversations he had, and also invites us to use Weber's thinking to reconsider our own age of empires, expansion and evolution.