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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goody, Jack (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Who stole what? : time and space
  • The invention of antiquity
  • Feudalism : a transition to capitalism or the collapse of Europe and the domination of Asia?
  • Asiatic despots, in Turkey and elsewhere?
  • Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe
  • The theft of 'civilization' : Elias and Absolutist Europe
  • The theft of 'capitalism' : Braudel and global comparison
  • The theft of institutions, towns, and universities
  • The appropriation of values : humanism, democracy and individualism
  • Stolen love : European claims to the emotions
  • Last words.