The Theft of History
Part of Canto Classics
- Author: Jack Goody, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: March 2012
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107683556
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In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive Eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing and the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism and love. Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for more scope in examining history than an East versus West style.
Read more- A major new statement from one of the world's leading social scientists
- Engages with some of the great thinkers of our time
- Highly accessible essay from a distinguished and provocative author
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- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107683556
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 139 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I:
1. Who stole what? Time and space
2. Antiquity: no markets, but did they invent politics, freedom and the alphabet?
3. Feudalism: transition to capitalism or the collapse of Europe and the domination of Asia
4. Asiatic despots, in Turkey and elsewhere?
Part II:
5. Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe
6. The theft of 'civilization': Elias and Absolutist Europe
7. The theft of 'capitalism': Braudel and global comparison
Part III:
8. The theft of institutions, towns and universities
9. The appropriation of values: humanism, democracy and individualism
10. Stolen love: European claims to the emotions
11. Last words
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