History at the limit of world-history / Ranajit Guha.

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Guha, Ranajit

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TextPublisher number: EB00662274 | Recorded BooksSeries: Italian Academy lecturesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 116 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0231505094
9780231505093

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: History at the limit of world-history.DDC classification:

907/.2 21

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D20 .G756 2002eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half title; Italian Academy Lectures; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Historicality and the Prose of the World; 3. The Prose of History, or The Invention of World-History; 4. Experience, Wonder, and the Pathos of Historicality; 5. Epilogue: The Poverty of Historiography-a Poet's Reproach; Appendix: Historicality in Literature by Rabindranath Tagore; Notes; Glossary; Index.

Summary: 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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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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