The Eurasian MiracleISBN: 978-0-7456-4793-7
Hardcover
200 pages
December 2009, Polity
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1 Alternation or supremacy? 1
2 Why European and not Eurasian? 4
3 Domestic aspects of the ‘miracle’ 20
4 Eurasia and the Bronze Age 41
5 Merchants and their role in alternation 57
6 Merchant wealth and puritanical asceticism 66
7 Towards a knowledge society 79
8 The temporary advantage in alternation of the post-Renaissance west 94
9 Alternation in Eurasia 106
Appendix 1 Arguments of the Europeanists 115
Appendix 2 Water in east and west 127
Notes 131
References 139
Index 151