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Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
Jack Goody
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Description for Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
Paperback. * written by one of the world's leading anthropologists; * fills the gap for an accessible comparative study of the history of capitalism; * examines the causes and nature of the West's position of economic advantage; * challenges assumptions about long--term European supremacy of a culturala kind. . Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; HBG; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745631912
SKU
V9780745631912
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About Jack Goody
Jack Goody is Emeritus William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at St. Johns College, Cambridge
Reviews for Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate
'One of the world's best-known anthropologists asks what modernity is [and] how it originated. [Capitalism and Modernity] updates readers very well on the state of the discussion.' Kenneth Pomeranz, Journal of Social History