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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      21 March 1996
      ISBN:
      9781139171052
      9780521556736
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171052
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.495kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Anthropology
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    The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia. Traditionally many European historians and theorists have seen the societies of the East as 'static' or 'backward'. Jack Goody challenges these assumptions, beginning with the notion of a special Western rationality which enabled 'us' and not 'them' to modernise. He then turns to book-keeping, which several social and economic historians have seen as intrinsic to capitalism, arguing that there was in fact little difference between East and West in terms of mercantile activity. Other factors said to inhibit the East's development, such as the family and forms of labour, have also been greatly exaggerated. This Eurocentrism both fails to explain the current achievements of the East, and misunderstands Western history. The East in the West starts to redress the balance, and so marks a fundamental shift in our view of Western and Eastern history and society.

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    ‘The East in the West represents a valuable contribution to a debate which has become increasingly pressing.’

    David Washbrook Source: Economic History Review

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