Capitalism and Modernity The Great Debate

Name: Capitalism and Modernity The Great Debate
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ISBN: 9780745631912

ISBN-10: 0745631916

ISBN-13: 9780745631912

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jack Goody

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This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth.Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a 'cultural' kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions of developing mercantile…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.55" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Culture and the economy in early Europe



The sixteenth century



The other side of the coin



Malthus and the East



The challenge of China


References