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Europe (in theory) / Roberto M. Dainotto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dainotto, Roberto M. (Roberto Maria), 1962-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, European.
- Europe--Civilization.
- Europe.
- Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Europe--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a pigs eye view of Europe
- The discovery of Europe : some critical points
- Montesquieu's north and south : history as a theory of Europe
- Republics of letters : what is European literature?
- Mme de Stael to Hegel : the end of French Europe
- Orientalism, Mediterranean style : the limits of history at the margins of Europe.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-265) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023094
- 9781283023092
- 1283023091
- 9780822389620
- 0822389622
- OCLC:
- 300742541
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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