Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

Name: Provincializing Europe Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition
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ISBN: 9780691130019

ISBN-10: 0691130019

ISBN-13: 9780691130019

Edition: 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Dipesh Chakrabarty

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First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influentialProvincializing Europeaddresses 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, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking.Provincializing Europeproposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English