History at the Limit of World-History |
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| Author:
| Guha, Ranajit |
| Series title: | Italian Academy Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-12419-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Guha offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept 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 history. Guha offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history.