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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword / Leerssen, Joep -- 1. Introduction / Brolsma, Marjet / Bruin, Robin de / Lok, Matthijs -- Part I. History & Historiography -- 2. The Past and Present of European Historiography. Between Marginalization and Functionalization? / Berger, Stefan -- 3. The Fragmented Continent. The Invention of European Pluralism in History Writing from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century / Lok, Matthijs -- 4. Eurocentrism in Research on Mass Violence / Üngör, Uğur Ümit -- 5. Muslim EuRossocentrism. Ismail Gasprinskii's 'Russian Islam' (1881) / Kemper, Michael -- Part II. Literature & Art -- 6. David's Member, or Eurocentrism and Its Paintings in the Late Twentieth Century. The Example of Vienna / Schmale, Wolfgang -- 7. Women Walking, Women Dancing. Motion, Gender and Eurocentrism / Leerssen, Joep -- 8. Shakespeare, England, Europe and Eurocentrism / Hoenselaars, Ton -- 9. Being Eurocentric within Europe. Nineteenth-century English and Dutch Literary Historiography and Oriental Spain / Pérez, Yolanda Rodríguez -- 10. The Elephant on the Doorstep? East European Perspectives on Eurocentrism / Drace-Francis, Alex -- Part III. EU & Memory -- 11. A Guided Tour into the Question of Europe / Ifversen, Jan -- 12. Constructing the European Cultural Space. A Matter of Eurocentrism? / Vos, Claske -- Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eurocentrism -- Europe.
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Eurocentrism. |
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Europe. |
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Europe -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Brolsma, Marjet.
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Bruin, Robin de (Robin Jeroen), 1971-
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Lok, Matthijs, 1974-
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Print version: Brolsma, Marjet. Eurocentrism in European History and Memory. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
9048550556 (electronic book) |
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9789048550555 (electronic book) |
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