Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the 2007 Edition: Provincializing Europe in Global Times ix
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. INTRODUCTION: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 1
6. Part One: HISTORICISM AND THE NARRATION OF MODERNITY
7. Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27
8. Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47
9. Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72
10. Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97
11. PART TWO: HISTORIES OF BELONGING
12. Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117
13. Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149
14. Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180
15. Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried Labor 214
16. Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237
17. Notes 257
18. Index 299