History After the Three Worlds Post-Eurocentric Historiographies

by Dirlik, Arif; Bahl, Vinay; Gran, Peter; Abou-El-Haj, R. A.; Cooper, Frederick; Mallon, Florencia A.; Patterson, Thomas C.; Prazniak, Roxann

• ISBN13: 9780847693429
• ISBN10: 0847693422
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This ambitious volume provides a comparative perspective on the challenges facing the discipline of history as Eurocentrism fades as a lens for viewing the world. Exploring the state of history and the struggle over its ownership throughout the world, the authors address the issues of globalization, postmodernism, and postcolonialism that have been largely ignored by practicing historians despite their importance to cultural studies and their relevance to history. Engaging in a vigorous critique of Eurocentrism, the volume at the same time reaffirms the importance of historical ways of knowing.

Author Biography

Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj is professor of history and teaches in the program of philosophy, interpretation, and culture at the State University of New York, Bing-hamton Vinay Bahl is associate professor of sociology at the Pennsylvania College of Technology Fredrick Cooper (Ph.D., Yale, 1974) is Charles Gibson Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the department of history Arif Dirlik is a professor of history and adjunct professor of anthropology at Duke University Peter Gran is professor of history at Temple University Florencia E. Mallon teaches modern Latin American history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Thomas C. Patterson is professor of anthropology and history at Temple University Roxann Prazniak is Elliott Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College

Table of Contents

Part 1: The End of Eurocentrism?
Introduction	3	(22)
Vinay Bahl
Arif Dirlik
Is There History after Eurocentrism? Globalism, Postcolonialism, and the Disavowal of History	25	(24)
Arif Dirlik
Archeologists and Historians Confront Civilization, Relativism, and Poststructuralism in the Late Twentieth Century	49	(18)
Thomas C. Patterson
Part 2: Area Perspectives
Historiography in West Asian and North African Studies since Sa'id's Orientalism	67	(18)
R. A. Abou-El-Haj
Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working-Class History	85	(40)
Vinay Bahl
Reversals, Ironies, Hegemonies: Notes on the Contemporary Historiography of Modern China	125	(32)
Arif Dirlik
Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History	157	(34)
Frederick Cooper
The Promise and Dilemma of Subaltern Studies: Perspectives from Latin American History	191	(30)
Florencia E. Mallon
Part 3: History at A(nother) Crossroads
Is World History Possible? An Inquiry	221	(20)
Roxann Prazniak
Whither History? Encounters with Historism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism	241	(18)
Arif Dirlik
Index	259	(18)
About the Contributors	277