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The Eurasian miracle Jack Goody

By: Goody, JackMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [a. o.] Polity 2010Description: V, 159 pISBN: 9780745647944Subject(s): Geschichte | Soziookonomischer Wandel | Kulturanthropologe | Sozialanthropologie | Kulturaustausch | Eurozentrismus | Europe -- Relations -- Asia -- History | Asia -- Relations -- Europe -- History | Europe -- History | Asia -- History | Europe -- Civilization -- Asian influences | Asia -- Civilization -- European influences | Europa | Asien | Eurasien | Европа | Азия | международные отношения | культурные взаимосвязи | торговые связи | Евразия | история международных отношенийDDC classification: 327.405 LOC classification: D1065.A78 | G66 2010Other classification: Т3(0)-6
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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