Provincializing Europe : : Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition / / Dipesh Chakrabarty.

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:New edition with a New preface by the author
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 3 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the 2007 Edition: Provincializing Europe in Global Times
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Provincializing Europe
  • Part One: HISTORICISM AND THE NARRATION OF MODERNITY
  • Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
  • Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital
  • Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History
  • Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts
  • PART TWO: HISTORIES OF BELONGING
  • Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject
  • Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination
  • Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality
  • Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried Labor
  • Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism
  • Notes
  • Index