Nisbet, Robert A. <br/><br/>
Metaphor and history :  the Western idea of social development / 
Robert A. Nisbet ; with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz 
 - New Brunswick, NJ :  Transaction Publishers,  2009. 
 - xviii, 335 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published under title: Social change and history. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-328) and index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781412808781 (acid-free paper)  RM101.16 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social change.<br/>Historical sociology.