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The theft of history /
Professor 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. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Professor 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. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Theft of History discusses a number of theorists in detail, including Marx, Weber and Norbert Elias, and engages with critical admiration western historians like Fernand Braudel, Moses Finlay and Perry Anderson. Major questions of method are raised, and Goody proposes a new comparative methodology for cross-cultural analysis, one that gives a much more sophisticated basis for assessing divergent historical outcomes, and replaces outmoded simple differences between East and West. The Theft of History will be read by an unusually wide audience of historians, anthropologists and social theorists. -- Publisher description from http://www.cambridge.org (Oct. 18, 2011). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511260946 9780511260940 9780511261510 0511261519 9780511819841 0511819846 9781139197151 1139197150 9786610749492 6610749493 0521691052 9780521691055 1280749490 9781280749490 0511320191 9780511320194 0511260393 9780511260391 1107387094 9781107387096 1139894102 9781139894104 1107395615 9781107395619 1107414865 9781107414860 1107390818 9781107390812 |