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Eurocentrism in European history and memory /

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes; while this may not seem so unreasonable to Europeans, this perspective has unforeseen consequences. Eurocentric history implies that scientific modernity has diffused outwards from Europe to the benefit of the rest...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brolsma, Marjet (Editor ), Bruin, Robin de (Robin Jeroen), 1971- (Editor ), Lok, Matthijs, 1974- (Editor ), Wintle, Michael J. (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Foreword / Joep Leerssen
  • 1. Introduction / Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, Matthijs Lok
  • PART I. HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY. 2. The past and present of European historiography: between marginalization and functionalization? / Stefan Berger
  • 3. The fragmented continent: the invention of European pluralism in history writing from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century / Matthijs Lok
  • 4. Eurocentrism in research on mass violence / Uğur Ümit Üngör
  • 5. Muslim EuRossocentrism: Ismail Gasprinskii's 'Russian Islam' (1881) / Michael Kemper
  • PART II. LITERATURE & ART. 6. David's member, or Eurocentrism and its paintings in the late twentieth century: the example of Vienna / Wolfgang Schmale
  • 7. Women walking, women dancing: motion, gender and Eurocentrism / Joep Leerssen
  • 8. Shakespeare, England, Europe and Eurocentrism / Ton Hoenselaars
  • 9. Being Eurocentric within Europe: nineteenth-century English and Dutch literary historiography and Oriental Spain / Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
  • 10. The elephant on the doorstep?: East European perspectives on Eurocentrism / Alex Drace-Francis
  • PART III. EU & MEMORY. 11. A guided tour into the question of Europe / Jan Ifversen
  • 12. Constructing the European cultural space: a matter of Eurocentrism? / Claske Vos
  • Index.