Publication

2019 - Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789463725521
  • ISBN-109463725520
  • OCLC Control Number1108157489
  • Better World Books9789463725521
  • Open LibraryOL28909288M

Classifications

  • LCCD208 .E87 2019

Description

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 of the world, through colonialism and later development aid; it involves the imposition of European norms on places and times where they are often quite inappropriate. This book brings together respected scholars from history, literature, art, memory and cultural policy, and from different geographical perspectives, who explore and critically analyse manifestations of Eurocentrism in representations of Europe's past. The collection investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the 18th Century played in the construction of a Europeanist world view and the ways in which 'Europe' was constructed in literature and art.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Eurocentrism in European History and MemoryAmsterdam University Press2019-01-01

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