The Eurasian miracle / Jack Goody.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, England : Polity, 2010Description: v, 159 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780745647944 (pbk.); 9780745647937 (hbk.)Subject(s): Europe -- Relations -- Asia -- History | Asia -- Relations -- Europe -- History | Europe -- History | Asia -- History | Europe -- Civilization -- Asian influences | Asia -- Civilization -- European influences | East and WestDDC classification: 303.482405 LOC classification: CB251 | .G58 2010| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150) and index.
1. Alternation or supremacy? -- 2. Why European and not Eurasian? -- 3. Domestic aspects of the 'miracle' -- 4. Eurasia and the Bronze Age -- 5. Merchants and their role in alternation -- 6. Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism -- 7. Towards a knowledge society -- 8. The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west -- 9. 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. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that underlay the rise to global supremacy of the West. This book dismantles this Eurocentric view of the world.
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