Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Provincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference / with a new preface by the author, Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Author
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
©2000
Description
xxvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Availability
Available Online
ACLS Humanities eBook
EBSCOhost Historical Abstracts with Full Text
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Classics Collection
D13.5.E85 C43 2008
Browse related items
Request
Firestone Library - Stacks
D13.5.E85 C43 2008
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Historiography
—
Europe
[Browse]
Eurocentrism
[Browse]
Decolonization
[Browse]
Europe
—
History
—
Philosophy
[Browse]
India
—
Historiography
[Browse]
Series
Princeton studies in culture/power/history
[More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Notes
Previous edition: 2000.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-298) and index.
Contents
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.
Show 9 more Contents items
ISBN
9780691130019 ((pbk.))
0691130019 ((pbk.))
0691049084
9780691049083
0691049092
9780691049090
OCLC
225398188
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Provincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
id
9932348363506421
Provincializing Europe [electronic resource] : postcolonial thought and historical difference / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
id
99125212744106421
Provincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
id
99125197145806421