TY - BOOK AU - Goody,Jack TI - The Eurasian miracle SN - 9780745647944 AV - D1065.A78 G66 2010 U1 - 327.405 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge [a. o.] PB - Polity KW - Soziookonomischer Wandel KW - swd KW - Kulturanthropologe KW - Sozialanthropologie KW - Kulturaustausch KW - Eurozentrismus KW - Europe KW - Relations KW - Asia KW - History KW - Civilization KW - Asian influences KW - European influences KW - Europa KW - Asien KW - Eurasien KW - Европа KW - Азия KW - международные отношения KW - культурные взаимосвязи KW - торговые связи KW - Евразия KW - история международных отношений N1 - Bibliogr.: p. 139-150; Index: p. 151-159; Alternation or supremacy? -- Why European and not Eurasian? -- Domestic aspects of the 'miracle' -- Eurasia and the Bronze Age -- Merchants and their role in alternation -- Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism -- Towards a knowledge society -- The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west -- Alternation in Eurasia -- Appendix 1. Arguments of the Europeanists -- Appendix 2. Water in east and west N2 - The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the 19th century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from antiquity through feudalism to capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. In this book, Jack Goody examines this topic ER -