Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in...

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in t...

Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the...

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

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

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

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human...

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human...

In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly i...

In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists, ...

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in t...

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential cri...