Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf

Europe and the People Without History

Eric R. Wolf

503 pages first pub 1982 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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A reader who savors slow, demanding works that weave history, anthropology, and political economy into a sweeping critique of how power shapes both past and memory will feel at home here.

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The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that ...

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