The Theft of History

by JackGoody (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $112.11

  Jack Goody extends his influential critique of the pervasive eurocentric biases of western historical writing.

• New

  Paperback
  2012

  $19.34

  In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive Eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing and the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism and love. Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis which allows for more scope in examining history than an East versus West style.