The Eurasian miracle /.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge Polity 2010Description: v, 159 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745647936 (hbk.)
  • 0745647944 (pbk.)
  • 9780745647937 (hbk.)
  • 9780745647944 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 122.098 ASE Available 8388079-10

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150) and index.

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.