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Asia after Europe Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century

Bose Sugata
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780674423497
Publisert
2024-02-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
452 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet

Forfatter
Bose Sugata

Biographical note

Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.

Asia after Europe Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century

Bose Sugata
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Bose Sugata
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A fascinating new book.

- Sudheendra Kulkarni, The Wire

Makes more complete our understanding of the long and radical meeting of East and West in our countries…a book to savor.

- Shivshankar Menon, Biblio

Bose is at the top of his game—a brilliant, urgent, and passionate book.

- Tim Harper, University of Cambridge,

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Bose’s book focuses on the history of a group of extraordinary Asian intellectuals who played a seminal role in reviving the idea of Asia as a distinct civilisational zone, with shared values and sensibilities, very different from Europe. The author recounts in a most vivid and readable style the history of the 'intellectual, cultural and political conversations across Asia' among those who 'challenged European colonial domination to dream of the futurism of young Asia'…the importance of Bose’s rigorously researched book lies in the pioneering exploration of the literary and artistic streams which flowed back and forth in the Asian space…This is an important book for anyone interested in the future of Asia.

- Shyam Saran, The Tribune

Rarely would one read a history of thought and one of an evolving continental identity as exciting as [this].

- Subhir Bhaumik, Eurasia Review

<p>Redefines Asia’s modern historical role, foregrounding its intellectual and political agency<br />while challenging entrenched Eurocentric narratives…a landmark contribution to transnational intellectual history [that]…not only enriches our understanding of Asia’s past but also offers a compelling framework for rethinking its future.</p>

- Stefan Messingschlager, Global Intellectual History

A trenchant, capacious, and moving feast of historical interpretation. Drawing on the full breadth of insights from a distinguished career studying Asia’s interconnected past, Sugata Bose illuminates ways to a more plural and inclusive Asian future.

- Sunil Amrith, Yale University,

In this enthralling intellectual history of a continent, Bose breaks out of European referents to focus on the mobility of Asian people, ideas, and imaginaries. A pathbreaking foray into the making of modern Asia.

- Seema Alavi, Ashoka University,

This is a deeply felt and carefully argued book. Sugata Bose captures the hopes and misjudgments of generations of Asian thinkers. He makes us wonder if the US-led international system based on sovereign nation-states and the new nationalisms that this system produced might have lured Asia too far for its alternative forms of universalism to succeed. Highly recommended.

- Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore,

A brilliant history of continental connections which offers vital lessons for Asia’s shared future.

- Amartya Sen, Harvard University,

A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia after Europe is a bold new interpretation of the period, focusing on the conflicting and overlapping ways in which Asians have conceived their bonds and their roles in the world. Tracking the circulation of ideas and people across colonial and national borders, Sugata Bose explores developments in Asian thought, art, and politics that defied Euro-American models and defined Asianness as a locus of solidarity for all humanity.Impressive in scale, yet driven by the stories of fascinating and influential individuals, Asia after Europe examines early intimations of Asian solidarity and universalism preceding Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905; the revolutionary collaborations of the First World War and its aftermath, when Asian universalism took shape alongside Wilsonian internationalism and Bolshevism; the impact of the Great Depression and Second World War on the idea of Asia; and the persistence of forms of Asian universalism in the postwar period, despite the consolidation of postcolonial nation-states on a European model.Diverse Asian universalisms were forged and fractured through phases of poverty and prosperity, among elites and common people, throughout the span of the twentieth century. Noting the endurance of nationalist rivalries, often tied to religious exclusion and violence, Bose concludes with reflections on the continuing potential of political thought beyond European definitions of reason, nation, and identity.
Les mer
Across the twentieth century, Asians imagined universalist ideals centered on the idea of Asia itself, rivaling European colonial thought, liberalism, and race-based nationalisms. Sugata Bose explores the history of Asian universalisms and reflects on their potential amid ongoing nationalist rivalries tied to religious majoritarianism and violence.
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A fascinating new book.

- Sudheendra Kulkarni, The Wire

Makes more complete our understanding of the long and radical meeting of East and West in our countries…a book to savor.

- Shivshankar Menon, Biblio

Bose is at the top of his game—a brilliant, urgent, and passionate book.

- Tim Harper, University of Cambridge,

Se alle

Bose’s book focuses on the history of a group of extraordinary Asian intellectuals who played a seminal role in reviving the idea of Asia as a distinct civilisational zone, with shared values and sensibilities, very different from Europe. The author recounts in a most vivid and readable style the history of the 'intellectual, cultural and political conversations across Asia' among those who 'challenged European colonial domination to dream of the futurism of young Asia'…the importance of Bose’s rigorously researched book lies in the pioneering exploration of the literary and artistic streams which flowed back and forth in the Asian space…This is an important book for anyone interested in the future of Asia.

- Shyam Saran, The Tribune

Rarely would one read a history of thought and one of an evolving continental identity as exciting as [this].

- Subhir Bhaumik, Eurasia Review

<p>Redefines Asia’s modern historical role, foregrounding its intellectual and political agency<br />while challenging entrenched Eurocentric narratives…a landmark contribution to transnational intellectual history [that]…not only enriches our understanding of Asia’s past but also offers a compelling framework for rethinking its future.</p>

- Stefan Messingschlager, Global Intellectual History

A trenchant, capacious, and moving feast of historical interpretation. Drawing on the full breadth of insights from a distinguished career studying Asia’s interconnected past, Sugata Bose illuminates ways to a more plural and inclusive Asian future.

- Sunil Amrith, Yale University,

In this enthralling intellectual history of a continent, Bose breaks out of European referents to focus on the mobility of Asian people, ideas, and imaginaries. A pathbreaking foray into the making of modern Asia.

- Seema Alavi, Ashoka University,

This is a deeply felt and carefully argued book. Sugata Bose captures the hopes and misjudgments of generations of Asian thinkers. He makes us wonder if the US-led international system based on sovereign nation-states and the new nationalisms that this system produced might have lured Asia too far for its alternative forms of universalism to succeed. Highly recommended.

- Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore,

A brilliant history of continental connections which offers vital lessons for Asia’s shared future.

- Amartya Sen, Harvard University,

A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia after Europe is a bold new interpretation of the period, focusing on the conflicting and overlapping ways in which Asians have conceived their bonds and their roles in the world. Tracking the circulation of ideas and people across colonial and national borders, Sugata Bose explores developments in Asian thought, art, and politics that defied Euro-American models and defined Asianness as a locus of solidarity for all humanity.Impressive in scale, yet driven by the stories of fascinating and influential individuals, Asia after Europe examines early intimations of Asian solidarity and universalism preceding Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905; the revolutionary collaborations of the First World War and its aftermath, when Asian universalism took shape alongside Wilsonian internationalism and Bolshevism; the impact of the Great Depression and Second World War on the idea of Asia; and the persistence of forms of Asian universalism in the postwar period, despite the consolidation of postcolonial nation-states on a European model.Diverse Asian universalisms were forged and fractured through phases of poverty and prosperity, among elites and common people, throughout the span of the twentieth century. Noting the endurance of nationalist rivalries, often tied to religious exclusion and violence, Bose concludes with reflections on the continuing potential of political thought beyond European definitions of reason, nation, and identity.
Les mer
Across the twentieth century, Asians imagined universalist ideals centered on the idea of Asia itself, rivaling European colonial thought, liberalism, and race-based nationalisms. Sugata Bose explores the history of Asian universalisms and reflects on their potential amid ongoing nationalist rivalries tied to religious majoritarianism and violence.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780674423497
Publisert
2024-02-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Harvard University Press
Vekt
452 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Bose Sugata

Biographical note

Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.

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