History at the Limit of World-History

Type

Book

Authors

Ranajit Guha

ISBN 10

023112418X

ISBN 13

9780231124188

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Social Sciences, Literary Theory, Europe, Ancient

Description

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. - from Amzon

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