Albert Galloway Keller

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Albert Galloway Keller (born April 10, 1874 in Springfield , Ohio - † October 31, 1956 ) was an American sociologist.

He was closely associated with Yale University , where he received his bachelor's degree (1896) and his doctorate (1899). He was a student of William Graham Sumner . A. Galloway Keller taught at Yale University from 1899 to 1942, since 1907 as a professor. During this time he was among other things the teacher of George P. Murdock . Keller wrote about colonial politics (Germany, Portugal, etc.), economic geography and sociology. He was the editor of William Graham Sumner's works, which were published by Yale University Press in New Haven . He is also the author of an ethnographic questionnaire , Queries in Ethnography (1903).

Publications (selection)

  • The Beginnings of German Colonization , Yale Review, May 1901.
  • The Colonial Policy of the Germans , Yale Review, February 1902.
  • Homeric Society: A Sociological Study of the Iliad and the Odyssey , New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1902.
  • Queries in Ethnography , New York: Longmans, Green, 1903. Digitized
  • Notes on the Danish West Indies. In: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 22/1, 1903.
  • Portuguese Colonization in Brazil , New Haven 1906.
  • Colonization: A Study of the Founding of New Societies , Boston: Ginn & Company, 1908. Digitized version (about the colonies of the Chinese, the Phoenicians ..., the Portuguese in the east and in Brazil, the Spanish colonization, the Dutch, modern Italian and German colonization etc.)
  • Race Distinction , New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1909.
  • Physical and Commercial Geography: A Study of Certain Controlling Conditions of Commerce , with Herbert Ernest Gregory and Avard Longley Bishop, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1910.
  • Commercial and Industrial Geography , with Avard Longley Bishop , Boston: Ginn & Company, 1912.
  • Societal Evolution: A Study of the Evolutionary Basis of the Science of Society , New York: Macmillan Company, 1915
  • Industry and Trade: Historical and Descriptive Account of Their Development in the United States , with Avery Longley Bishop, Boston: Ginn & Company, 1918.
  • Through War to Peace: A Study of the Great War as an Incident in the Evolution of Society , New York: Macmillan Company, 1921.
  • Starting Points in Social Science , Boston: Ginn & Company, 1925.
  • Man's Rough Road: Backgrounds and Bearings From Mankind's Experience , New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932; acondensed edition of Sumner's, Keller's, and Davie's, The Science of Society; and Reminiscences (mainly personal) of William Graham Sumner; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.
  • Brass Tacks , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.
  • Net Impressions , New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942.
  • A Byzantine admirer of 'western' progress: Cardinal Bessarion. In Cambridge Historical Journal 11 (1953-55), pp. 343-348.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Yale University Library
  2. ↑ Digitized version (incomplete at the beginning) (p. 70: "Do the natives care much about the loss of independence, change of rulers, etc.?")

literature

  • Keller, Albert Galloway and George Peter Murdock. (1937). Studies in the Science of Society Presented to Albert Galloway Keller in Celebration of his Completion of Thirty Years as Professor of the Science of Society at Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Press ; London: Oxford University Press .

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personal data
SURNAME Keller, Albert Galloway
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, A. Galloway
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist from Yale University
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield (Ohio) , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1956