The theft of history

Resource Information

The work The theft of history represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The theft of history

Statement of responsibility

Jack Goody

Creator

• Goody, Jack

Subject

• Civilization
• Eurocentrism
• History -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

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. -- Publisher description from http://www.cambridge.org (Oct. 18, 2011)

Member of

• Canto (Cambridge University Press)

Cataloging source

StEdNL

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D16.9.G65

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography