An edition of History at the limit of world-history
(2002)
History at the limit of world-history
by Ranajit Guha
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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. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history. That concept, he contends, reduces the course of human history to the amoral reco.
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History at the Limit of World-History
2003, Columbia University Press
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History at the limit of world-history
2002, Columbia University Press
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