Jack Goody: Capitalism and Modernity

Cover: 9780745631912 | Capitalism and Modernity | The Great Debate | Jack Goody | Taschenbuch

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This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a 'cultural' kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions of developing mercantile and manufacturing activity. This original book casts new light on the history of capitalism, industrialization and modernity, and will be essential reading for all those interested in the great debate about the economic rise of the West.

Über den Autor

Jack Goody is Emeritus William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at St. Johns College, Cambridge

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1 Culture and the economy in early Europe.

2 The sixteenth century.

3 The other side of the coin.

4 Malthus and the East.

5 The challenge of China.

6 The Growth and Interchange of Merchant Cultures.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780745631912
ISBN-10:	0745631916
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Goody, Jack
Hersteller:	Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	212 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Jack Goody
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.05.2004
Gewicht:	0,269 kg