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The Theft of History

The Theft of History

Paperback

Series: Canto Classics

General World HistoryHistoriography

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 1107683556
ISBN13: 9781107683556
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
In The Theft of History 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, and the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism and love. Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology, and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for more scope in examining history than an East versus West style.

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