History at the Limit of World-History

Guha, Ranajit

ISBN 10: 023112418X / ISBN 13: 9780231124188

Published by Columbia University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History at the Limit of World-History
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023112418X
• ISBN 13: 9780231124188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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. Guha offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history.

About the Authors

Ranajit Guha is founding editor of Subaltern Studies and author of a number of celebrated books, including Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. He has held various research and teaching positions in India, England, the United States, and Australia. He currently lives in Austria.