The Theft of HistoryCambridge University Press, 29 Mar 2012 - 342 sayfa 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. |
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Acknowledgements page | 1 |
Who stole what? Time and space | 13 |
The invention of Antiquity | 26 |
a transition to capitalism or the collapse | 68 |
Asiatic despots in Turkey or elsewhere? | 99 |
Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe | 125 |
Elias and Absolutist Europe | 154 |
Braudel and global comparison | 180 |
The theft of institutions towns and universities | 215 |
humanism democracy | 240 |
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achievements activity Africa agriculture ancient Ancient Greece Anderson 1974b Antiquity Arab argued Asia Asiatic behaviour bourgeoisie Braudel Bronze Age capitalism Carthage centres certainly China Chinese Christian cities claims classical commerce complex concept context continued culture democracy despotism discussion dominant earlier early east eastern economy Elias elsewhere Elvin emergence empire especially Eurasia eurocentric European example exchange existed feudalism Finley freedom Ghana Goody Greece Greek growth historians human idea important India Industrial Revolution institutions invention Islam Istanbul Italy labour later London madrasa major manufacture Marx medieval Mediterranean mercantile merchants Mesopotamia mode of production modern science Muslim Needham nineteenth century Norbert Elias notion Ottoman period Phoenician poetry political problem regimes religion religious Renaissance Roman romantic love Rome scholars secular seen silk similar slave social societies sphere teleological textiles tion towns trade tradition Turkey unique urban Weber western Europe world history writing