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Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire

Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire

Perdue, Peter C.
Islamoglu, Huri

Hardcover

Series: Critical Asian Studies

General SociologyHistoriographyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 041548166X
ISBN13: 9780415481663
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared experiences of modern transformation or modernity in three regions -- China, India and the Ottoman Empire -- which conventional historiography identifies as non-European, and therefore, by implication, outside of modernity or only tangentially linked to it as its victim. In other words, this work looks at modernity without reference to any 'idealised' criteria of what qualifies as 'modern' or not, studying the negotiation and legacies of the early modern period for the modern nation state. It focuses on the experience of modernity of non-European regions for they play a crucial role in the new phase of transformational patterns may have deeper roots than are generally assumed.

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