Renaissances: The One Or The Many? - Softcover

Goody, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521745160 ISBN 13: 9780521745161

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Distinguished social scientist Jack Goody addresses a core historical question: does the European Renaissance deserve its status at the heart of our notions of modernity? Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, emphasising what Europe owed to non-European influences.

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'Renaissances is a magisterial book.' Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement

Reseña del editor:

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 scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasises 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 and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is as accessible as it is ambitious.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521745160
• ISBN 13: 9780521745161
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342