History at the limit of world-history /
The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of...
| Основен автор: | Guha, Ranajit. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
℗♭2002.
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| Серия: |
Italian Academy lectures.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=78600 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
History at the limit of world-history. |
| Резюме: |
The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. That concept, he contends, reduces the course of human history to the amoral reco. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 116 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0231505094 9780231505093 |