Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China

by Prasenjit Duara

Book Overview

Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001HTHIW6
• ISBN13: 9780226167220
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"