Renaissances: The One or the Many?
"...a magisterial book..." -Times Literary Supplement"...valuable and stimulating work." -Sumit Guha, Canadian Journal of History"Jack Goody's Renaissances appears as the oeuvre of a senior scholar standing on the peak of a mountain and looking back over his journey with the broad perspective that only many years of scholarship can bring. Goody is well known and respected as an anthropologist of wide interests and skills, whose early work on Africa and later work on literacy have allowed him to become, more recently, a comparative scholar on a global scale." -Emily Michelson, The Journal of Modern History"It is rare to find a monograph that is so passionately argued, and motivated by such  a clear authorial vision."-Carla S. Nappi,University of British Columbia