Eurocentrism in European History and Memory

Marjet Brolsma (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 9463725520 / ISBN 13: 9789463725521

Published by Routledge, 2019

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Eurocentrism in European History and Memory | Marjet Brolsma (u. a.) | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2019 | Routledge | EAN 9789463725521 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eurocentrism in European History and Memory
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9463725520
• ISBN 13: 9789463725521
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 18D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams
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Synopsis

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe’s terms and through European eyes. This may not be unreasonable for Europeans, but there are unforeseen consequences. Eurocentric history implies that a scientific modernity has diffused out from Europe to benefit the rest of the world, through colonies and development aid. It involves the imposition of European norms on places and times where they are often quite inappropriate. In Eurocentrism in European History and Memory, well-known scholars explore and critically analyse manifestations of Eurocentrism in representations of the European past from different disciplines ― history, literature, art, memory and cultural policy ― as well as from different geographical perspectives. The book investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the eighteenth century played in the construction of a Europeanist worldview and the ways in which ‘Europe’ was constructed in literature and art.

About the Author

Marjet Brolsma is Assistant Professor in European Cultural History at the European Studies department of the University of Amsterdam. She has been a research assistant at the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN), and published on intellectuals and the Great War, national identity discourses and ideas of Europe.
Robin de Bruin is Assistant Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, with a current research focus on the relationship between decolonization and European integration. He lectures on Modern European History, including European integration.|Matthijs Lok is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Amsterdam