LEADER 03551nam 22006732 450 001 996248074203316 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a0-511-25909-3 010 $a1-107-17175-X 010 $a0-521-69105-2 010 $a1-280-74949-0 010 $a0-511-81984-6 010 $a0-511-26094-6 010 $a0-511-26151-9 010 $a0-511-25974-3 010 $a0-511-32019-1 010 $a0-511-26039-3 024 7 $a2027/heb31043 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351966 035 $a(EBL)281761 035 $a(OCoLC)437175470 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10253989 035 $a(PQKB)11124184 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511819841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC281761 035 $a(dli)HEB31043 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012335682 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351966 100 $a20101021d2006|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe theft of history /$fJack Goody$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 342 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-511-25842-9 311 $a0-521-87069-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-323) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Who stole what? Time and space; 2 The invention of Antiquity; 3 Feudalism: a transition to capitalism or the collapse of Europe and the domination of Asia?; 4 Asiatic despots and societies, in Turkey or elsewhere?; 5 Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe; 6 The theft of 'civilization': Elias and Absolutist Europe; 7 The theft of 'capitalism': Braudel and global comparison; 8 The theft of institutions: towns, and universities; 9 The appropriation of values: humanism, democracy, and individualism 327 $a10 Stolen love: European claims to the emotions11 Last words; References; Index 330 $aProfessor 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. 606 $aHistory$xPhilosophy 606 $aEurocentrism 615 0$aHistory$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEurocentrism. 676 $a901 700 $aGoody$b Jack$0136697 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248074203316 996 $aThe theft of history$92345752 997 $aUNISA