TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goody,Jack
TI  - The Eurasian miracle /
SN  - 0745647936 (hbk.)
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity
KW  - Asia
KW  - Civilization
KW  - European influences
KW  - History
KW  - Relations
KW  - Europe
KW  - Asian influences
N1  - 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
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