Connected History: Essays and Arguments Subrahmanyam Sanjay
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historianSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and…
Specifikacia Connected History: Essays and Arguments Subrahmanyam Sanjay
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historianSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue dure or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects.The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing. Connected History considers