The Theft of History(English, Paperback, Goody Jack)

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The Theft of History(English, Paperback, Goody Jack) is written by Goody Jack and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107683556 (ISBN 10) and 9781107683556 (ISBN 13).

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.