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The Theft of History.
Goody raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Canto classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: A socio-cultural genealogy; 1 Who stole what? Time and space; Time; Space; Periodization; 2 The invention of Antiquity; Modes of communication: the alphabet; The transition to Antiquity; The economy; Politics; Religion and 'Black Athens'; Conclusion: Antiquity and the Europe-Asia Dichotomy; 3 Feudalism: a transition to capitalism or the collapse of Europe and the domination of Asia?; The shift to feudalism from Antiquity; Decline in the west, continuity in the east; The shift to feudalism.
- The Carolingian revival and the birth of feudalismCavalry warfare; The upswing of trade and of manufacture; Other feudalisms?; 4 Asiatic despots and societies, in Turkey or elsewhere?; The Sultan's army; Peasants as slaves?; Trade; The silk industry; The spice trade; A static society?; Cultural similarities in east and west; Part Two: Three scholarly perspectives; 5 Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe; The polity and the bourgeoisie; The economy and law; 'Modern science' and the internal characteristics of knowledge systems; The 'Needham problem'
- 6 The theft of 'civilization': Elias and Absolutist EuropeThe civilizing process; Experience in Ghana; 7 The theft of 'capitalism': Braudel and global comparison; Towns and the economy; Finance capitalism; The timing of capitalism; Part Three: Three institutions and values; 8 The theft of institutions, towns, and universities; Towns; Universities; Muslim education; Humanism; 9 The appropriation of values: humanism, democracy, and individualism; Humanism; Humanism and secularization; Humanism, human values, and westernization: rhetoric and practice; Democracy; Individualism, equality, freedom.
- Charity and ambivalence regarding luxury10 Stolen love: European claims to the emotions; 11 Last words; References; Index.