The Eurasian Miracle

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4793-7

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200 pages

December 2009, Polity

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Jack Goody is one of the top anthropologists in the world today
This concise book provides a broad historical and comparative overview of cultural development, in which the author argues for ‘the non-uniqueness of the West'
He examines the importance of the Urban Revolution of the Bronze Age, that affected the Near East, India and China well before Europe and that was much advanced by the adoption of writing
This is an accessible and topical text at a time when it seems the period of Western supremacy is now coming to an end and that we are about to experience a further alternation in favour of the East