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304 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521556736
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 21 March 1996
Description
The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia, which much European history and social theory has seen as "static" or "backward." Jack Goody challenges these Eurocentric assumptions, including the notion of a special Western rationality, an...
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304 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521556736
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 21 March 1996
Description
The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia, which much European history and social theory has seen as "static" or "backward." Jack Goody challenges these Eurocentric assumptions, including the notion of a special Western rationality, an...