Eurocentrism in European history and memory / edited by Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, and Matthijs Lok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brolsma, Marjet, editor.

Bruin, Robin de (Robin Jeroen), 1971- editor.

Lok, Matthijs, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurocentrism--Europe.

Eurocentrism.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes. This may not be unreasonable for Europeans, but there are unforeseen consequences. Eurocentric history implies that a scientific modernity has diffused out from Europe to benefit the rest of the world, through colonies and development aid. It involves the imposition of European norms on places and times where they are often quite inappropriate. In Eurocentrism in European History and Memory, well-known scholars explore and critically analyse manifestations of Eurocentrism in representations of the European past from different disciplines - history, literature, art, memory and cultural policy - as well as from different geographical perspectives. The book investigates the role imaginings of the European past since the eighteenth century played in the construction of a Europeanist worldview and the ways in which 'Europe' was constructed in literature and art.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. The Past and Present of European Historiography. Between Marginalization and Functionalization?

3. The Fragmented Continent. The Invention of European Pluralism in History Writing from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century

4. Eurocentrism in Research on Mass Violence

5. Muslim EuRossocentrism. Ismail Gasprinskii's 'Russian Islam' (1881)

6. David's Member, or Eurocentrism and Its Paintings in the Late Twentieth Century. The Example of Vienna

7. Women Walking, Women Dancing. Motion, Gender and Eurocentrism

8. Shakespeare, England, Europe and Eurocentrism

9. Being Eurocentric within Europe. Nineteenth-century English and Dutch Literary Historiography and Oriental Spain

10. The Elephant on the Doorstep? East European Perspectives on Eurocentrism

11. A Guided Tour into the Question of Europe

12. Constructing the European Cultural Space. A Matter of Eurocentrism?

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69502-7

90-485-5055-6

OCLC:

1178543264