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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The first volume in this series, Monadologie et sociologie (1999), was originally published in Revue internationale de sociologie in 1893, and was republished two years later in an edited collection titled Essais et mélanges sociologiques. 2. This fact is ameliorated to some extent by the appearance of new English translations of Gabriel Tarde's key texts (Tarde 2011 Tarde , G. 2011 Gabriel Tarde: Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology , M. Candea , Routledge , London . [Google Scholar]). The book titled Gabriel Tarde: Sociology, Philosophy and Psychology (2011) is also edited by Matei Candea and serves as a companion to The Social after Gabriel Tarde reviewed here. It contains translations of Monadology and Sociology and The Two Elements of Sociology. It also contains Belief and Desire which was translated in T. Clark's On Communication and Social Influence (1969). 3. The collection joins two other recent reappraisals of Tarde's contribution. First, Bruno Latour, the founder of ‘Actor Network Theory’, has discovered in Tarde an early presentation of two key themes associated with ANT – the rejection of the nature/society divide and the micro/macro split (2002, p. 118). And second, a special issue of Economy and Society dedicated to Tarde's thought appeared in 2007 with articles by Andrew Barry and Nigel Thrift – contributors to the present volume – along with a new translation of a portion of Tarde's Economic Psychology (2007). 4. A longer version of the debate previously appeared in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (Vargas et al. 2008 Vargas, E. V., Latour, B., Karsenti, B., Aït-Touati, F. and Salmon, L. 2008. The debate between Tarde and Durkheim. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(5): 761–77. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).