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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    gbv_722986173
    Format: Online-Ressource (287 p.)
    ISBN: 9780226167213
    Content: 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.The backlash against such histories has resulted in a tendency to view the past as largely constructed, imagined, or invented. In this book, Duara offers a way out o
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Acknowledgements; PART ONE; Introduction; 1 Linear History and the Nation-state; 2 Bifurcating Linear Histories in China and India; PART TWO; 3 The Campaigns against Religion and the Return of the Repressed; 4 Secret Brotherhood and Revolutionary Discourse in China's Republican Revolution; 5 The Genealogy of Fengjian or Feudalism: Narratives of Civil Society and State; 6 Provincial Narratives of the Nation: Federalism and Centralism in Modern China; 7 Critics of Modernity in India and China; Conclusion; References; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226167237
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rescuing History from the Nation : Questioning Narratives of Modern China
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
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