The Eurasian miracle.

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the 19th century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from antiquity through feudalism to capitalism which could not have taken place elsewhere. In this...

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书目详细资料
主要作者: Goody, Jack
格式: Ouvrage
语言:Anglais
出版: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.
主题:
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书本目录:
  • Alternation or supremacy?
  • Why European and not Eurasian?
  • Domestic aspects of the 'miracle'
  • Eurasia and the Bronze Age
  • Merchants and their role in alternation
  • Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism
  • Towards a knowledge society
  • The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west
  • Alternation in Eurasia
  • Appendix 1. Arguments of the Europeanists
  • Appendix 2. Water in east and west.