History at the Limit of World-History

by Ranajit Guha

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231124198
• ISBN13: 9780231124195
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher