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Jack Goody challenges Eurocentric assumptions about the backwardness of cultural and intellectual development in Asia. His wide-ranging and provocative book presents a more balanced approach to Eastern and Western history and society.

Trade Review
'The East in the West represents a valuable contribution to a debate which has become increasingly pressing.' David Washbrook, Economic History Review

Table of Contents
Introduction: the West's problem with the East; 1. Rationality in review; 2. Rationality and ragioneria: The Keeping of Books and the Economic Miracle; 3. Indian trade and Economy in the Medieval and Early Colonial Periods; 4. The Growth of Indian Commerce and Industry; 5. Family and business in the East; 6. From collective to individual? The historiography of the family in the West; 7. Labour, Production and Communication; 8. Revaluations.

The East in the West

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 3/21/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521556736
      978-0521556736
      ISBN-10 0521556732
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      History of scholarship Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Jack Goody challenges Eurocentric assumptions about the backwardness of cultural and intellectual development in Asia. His wide-ranging and provocative book presents a more balanced approach to Eastern and Western history and society.

      Trade Review
      'The East in the West represents a valuable contribution to a debate which has become increasingly pressing.' David Washbrook, Economic History Review

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: the West's problem with the East; 1. Rationality in review; 2. Rationality and ragioneria: The Keeping of Books and the Economic Miracle; 3. Indian trade and Economy in the Medieval and Early Colonial Periods; 4. The Growth of Indian Commerce and Industry; 5. Family and business in the East; 6. From collective to individual? The historiography of the family in the West; 7. Labour, Production and Communication; 8. Revaluations.

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