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Capitalism and modernity : the great debate / Jack Goody.

By: Publication details: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2004.Description: vii, 200 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0745631908 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 9780745631905 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 0745631916 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9780745631912 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3420903 22
  • 330.122 22
LOC classification:
  • HN13 .G66 2004
Contents:
Culture and the economy in early Europe -- The sixteenth century -- The other side of the coin -- Malthus and the East -- The challenge of China -- The growth and interchange of merchant cultures.
Summary: This title investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks HN13 .G66 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBC00007394

Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-190) and index.

Culture and the economy in early Europe -- The sixteenth century -- The other side of the coin -- Malthus and the East -- The challenge of China -- The growth and interchange of merchant cultures.

This title investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth.

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