The Eurasian miracle
By: Jack Goody
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780745647937; 9780745647944
Subjects: Civilization; Asian influences; Relations; European influences; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alternation or supremacy?; title: Why European and not Eurasian?; title: Domestic aspects of the 'miracle'; title: Eurasia and the Bronze Age; title: Merchants and their role in alternation; title: Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism; title: Towards a knowledge society; title: The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west; title: Alternation in Eurasia; title: Appendix 1. Arguments of the Europeanists; title: Appendix 2. Water in east and west.