The Theft of History

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Cambridge University Press, 2012年3月29日 - 342 頁
Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Theft of History discusses a number of theorists in detail, including Marx, Weber and Norbert Elias, and engages with critical admiration western historians like Fernand Braudel, Moses Finlay and Perry Anderson. Major questions of method are raised, and Goody proposes a new comparative methodology for cross-cultural analysis, one that gives a much more sophisticated basis for assessing divergent historical outcomes, and replaces outmoded simple differences between East and West. The Theft of History will be read by an unusually wide audience of historians, anthropologists and social theorists.

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Acknowledgements page
1
Who stole what? Time and space
13
The invention of Antiquity
26
a transition to capitalism or the collapse
68
Asiatic despots in Turkey or elsewhere?
99
Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe
125
Elias and Absolutist Europe
154
Braudel and global comparison
180
The theft ofinstitutions towns and universities
215
humanism democracy
240
References
307
Index
324
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