Renaissances : the one or the many? / by Jack Goody.
Renaissances : the one or the many? / by Jack Goody.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
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N909.0801/1
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English
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Physical content
ix, 322 p. [8]p. of plates ; 23 cm.
Contents
The idea of a renaissance -- Montpellier and medicine in Europe -- Religion and the secular -- Rebirth in Islam (with S. Fennell) -- Emancipation and efflorescence in Judaism -- Cultural continuity in India (with S. Fennell) -- Renaissance in China (with S. Fennell) -- Were renaissances only Europea...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2010.
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"One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody scrutinizes the European model in relation to parallel renaissances that have taken place in other c...
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Renaissances : the one or the many? / by Jack Goody.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2010.
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N909.0801/1
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74Vv8wMZ0oVO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv8wMZ0oVO
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ISBN
0521745160 (pbk.)
9780521768016 (hbk.)
0521768012 (hbk.)
9780521745161 (pbk.)
DDC
909.0801
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991014064999702626
