Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948. xiii, 458 p. 8vo. First edition. Grey cloth. Dust jacket, a few small chips and tears to edge. Owner's sig. on front free endpaper, a few marks in pencil.
Samuel Delbert Clark was a founder of Canadian sociology and first Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Clark invented a uniquely Canadian sociology, and his analyses of social change contain lovingly presents histories of religious, political and economic life in dozens of Canadian communities.