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The Eurasian miracle /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goody, Jack
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Europe > Relations > Asia > History. Asia > Relations > Europe > History. Europe > History. Asia > History. Europe > Civilization > Oriental influences. Asia > Civilization > European influences.

Table of Contents:

Alternation or supremacy?
Why European and not Eurasian?
Domestic aspects of the 'miracle'
Eurasia and the Bronze Age
Merchants and their role in alternation
Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism
Towards a knowledge society
The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west
Alternation in Eurasia
Appendix 1. Arguments of the Europeanists
Appendix 2. Water in east and west.