Renaissances
The One or the Many?
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- Author: Jack Goody, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: February 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521745161
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One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences. Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is as accessible as it is ambitious.
Read more- A major extended essay from one of the world's leading social scientists, in the style of The Theft of History
- Explains why the European Renaissance cannot be viewed purely as a European phenomenon
- Very accessible, very engaging, and very broad-ranging
Reviews & endorsements
"...a magisterial book..." -Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews"...valuable and stimulating work." -Sumit Guha, Canadian Journal of History
"Jack Goody’s Renaissances appears as the oeuvre of a senior scholar standing on the peak of a mountain and looking back over his journey with the broad perspective that only many years of scholarship can bring. Goody is well known and respected as an anthropologist of wide interests and skills, whose early work on Africa and later work on literacy have allowed him to become, more recently, a comparative scholar on a global scale." -Emily Michelson, The Journal of Modern History
"It is rare to find a monograph that is so passionately argued, and motivated by such a clear authorial vision."
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- Date Published: February 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521745161
- length: 342 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 10 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The idea of a renaissance
2. Montpellier and medicine in Europe
3. Religion and the secular
4. Rebirth in Islam
5. Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism
6. Cultural continuity in India
7. Renaissance in China
8. Were renaissances only European?
Appendices.
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