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 ...

This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage.

This landmark text, spanning centuries, cultures and continents, promises to inspire scholars and students across the social sciences.

This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history.

Throughout this collection, Goody demonstrates that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the East but also developments in the European past and present.

Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings together some of the most important essays written on these themes in the past half century, representative of a lifetime of critical engagement and research.

Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.

An ambitious general study of the development of marriage, family and conjugal roles in the change from hoe to plough agriculture, relating African society to Asian and European.

This book is wide-ranging, powerful, deftly argued, and draws upon the author's long experience of working in Africa and elsewhere.

Jack Goody's new book takes as its theme the symbolic and transactional uses of flowers in secular life and religious ritual from ancient Egypt to modern times.