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Acknowlegments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3 Part One: Historicism and the Narration of Modernity Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27 Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47 Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72 Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97 Part Two: Histories of Belonging Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117 Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149 Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180 Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried labor 214 Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237 Notes 257 Index 299

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Year
2001
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Volume
106
Issue
4
Pages
1322-1322
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9433
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R. Bin Wong, Dipesh Chakrabarty (2001). Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. The American Historical Review , 106 (4) , 1322-1322. https://doi.org/10.2307/2692957

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