ISBN: 9780231124195 - history at the limit of world-history (italian academy lectures) (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 128.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. This title offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 7. Weight in Grams: 180. . 2003. 1st US - 1st Printing. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 record of states and empires, great men and clashing civilizations. It renders invisible the quotidian experience of ordinary people and casts off all that came before it into the nether-existence known as 'Prehistory.'.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. This title offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history.&Uumlber .