One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world
addresses one of the central historical questions of the past
millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status
at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody
scrutinises the European model in relation to parallel renaissances
that have taken place in other cultural areas, primarily Islam and
China, and emphasises what Europe owed to non-European influences.
Renaissances continues that strand of historical analysis critical
of Eurocentrism that Goody has developed in recent works like The
East and the West (1996) or The Theft of History (2006). This book
is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the
author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere. Not
since Toynbee in The Study of History has anybody attempted quite
what Jack Goody is undertaking in Renaissances, and the result is
as accessible as it is ambitious.
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