The Eurasian Miracle

ISBN: 9780745647944 出版年：2013 页码：167 Jack Goody Wiley

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