Renaissances: The One or the Many? - Rilegato

Goody, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0521768012 ISBN 13: 9780521768016

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

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

Descrizione del libro:

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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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521768012
• ISBN 13: 9780521768016
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 342