Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Description
Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializing Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we think of a place such as India through the categories of modern, European social science and, in particular, history.Provincializing Europe is a sustained conver...
ISBN(s)
0691049092, 9780691049090
