{"product_id":"capitalism-and-modernity-9780745631912","title":"Capitalism and Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a cultural' kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions of developing mercantile and manufacturing activity. This original book casts new light on the history of capitalism, industrialization and modernity, and will be essential reading for all those interested in the great debate about the economic rise of the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the world's best-known anthropologists asks what modernity is [and] how it originated. [\u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e] updates readers very well on the state of the discussion.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eKenneth Pomeranz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Culture and the economy in early Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The other side of the coin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Malthus and the East.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The challenge of China.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Growth and Interchange of Merchant Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767975280983,"sku":"9780745631912","price":19.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745631912.jpg?v=1758715750","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/capitalism-and-modernity-9780745631912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}