The Eurasian Miracle
The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. 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. In this short book Jack Goody systematically dismantles this Eurocentric view of the world. He argues that we need to look, not for a European miracle, but rather for a Eurasian miracle that went back to…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7456-5925-1
- EAN: 9780745659251
- Produktnummer: 16367459
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 704 KB
Über den Autor
Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.
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