Renaissances : the one or the many? / Jack Goody.
Goody, Jack.
2010
CB361 .G67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Renaissances : the one or the many? / Jack Goody.
Author Goody, Jack.
ISBN 9780521768016
0521768012
9780521745161 (pbk.)
0521745160 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description ix, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number CB361 .G67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.2/1
909.0801
Summary "One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinizes the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasizes what Europe owed to non-European influences. Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The East in the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2007). This book will be of interest to students of the Renaissance and of the history of western civilization more generally, to anthropologists, sociologists and all those with an interest in the construction of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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