Main entry:

Chakrabarty, Dipesh.

Title & Author:

Provincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference / with a new preface by the author, Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Edition:

New ed.

Publication:

Princeton, N. J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2008.

Description:

xxvi, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Notes:
Previous ed.: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The idea of provincializing Europe -- Part I. Historicism and the narration of modernity -- Postcoloniality and the artifice of history -- The two histories of capital -- Translating life-worlds into labor and history -- Minority histories, subaltern pasts -- Part II. Histories of belonging -- Domestic cruelty and the birth of the subject -- Nation and imagination -- Adda : a history of sociality -- Family, fraternity, and salaried labor -- Reason and the critique of historicism.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe address 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 Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought-categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins. -- Back cover.

Resources:
ebrary

ISBN:

9780691130019 (paperback)
0691130019

Subject:

Historiography Europe.
Eurocentrism.
Decolonization.
Eurocentrisme.
Décolonisation.
Historiography.
Philosophy.
Europe History Philosophy.
India Historiography.
Europe Histoire Philosophie.
Europe.
India.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270781
Call No.: BIB 203623
Status: Available