Stealing history

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In The Stealing of History, Jack Goody builds on his own earlier work to further extend his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive Eurocentric, or Western, biases of much Western historiography and the resulting "theft" by the West of other cultures' achievements in inventing (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. The Stealing of History discusses several theorists in detail, including Marx, Weber, and Norbert Elias. It engages with critical admiration with Western historians such as Fernand Braudel, Moses Finlay, and Perry Anderson. Many questions are raised about the methods applied in these discussions. Professor Goody proposes a new comparative methodology for analyzing cross-cultural interaction, one that provides a far more sophisticated basis for evaluating complex historical outcomes and replaces the age-old simplistic East-West disputes. The Theft of History will be read by a wide audience of historians, anthropologists, and social theorists. Jack Goody: One of the world's leading anthropologists, he is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St. John's College.

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