Europe (in theory) / / Roberto M. Dainotto.

A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe
  • The discovery of Europe : some critical points
  • Montesquieu's north and south : history as a theory of Europe
  • Republics of letters : what is European literature?
  • Mme de Staël to Hegel : the end of French Europe
  • Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.