Capitalism and Modernity: The Great Debate

by Jack Goody

Book Overview

This 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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745631916
• ISBN13: 9780745631912
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"