History, without borders
Sanjay 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 durée 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 what, exactly, is an empire, the rise of ‘the West’ (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.
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作者的各类评论、书评、访谈文章合集。作为历史学家，该书包括对一些全球史帝国史的锐评（还有斯科特），许多讨论印度文化界的文章（阿西斯南迪、《白老虎》、奈保尔、印度经济学院）也包括其他人（海明威、丘吉尔、美国学术界对印度历史学的认知），甚至还有两篇讨论了城市（作者做过研究的巴黎和里斯本），可谓是包罗万象，都有独到的见解。该书也多多少少证明了书评这种写作形式的价值，让我多关注《伦敦书评》。此外作者也强调... 作者的各类评论、书评、访谈文章合集。作为历史学家，该书包括对一些全球史帝国史的锐评（还有斯科特），许多讨论印度文化界的文章（阿西斯南迪、《白老虎》、奈保尔、印度经济学院）也包括其他人（海明威、丘吉尔、美国学术界对印度历史学的认知），甚至还有两篇讨论了城市（作者做过研究的巴黎和里斯本），可谓是包罗万象，都有独到的见解。该书也多多少少证明了书评这种写作形式的价值，让我多关注《伦敦书评》。此外作者也强调了自己的研究重点：相互联系的历史，不过主要集中在1800以前，并且在这本书里论述并不多，更多是口号。看该作者其他书的评论区说他用语炫目，确实如此，读起来还是有些吃力的，一些用典需要反复搜寻。并且有时候锐评太锐，想必不是很好相处。 (展开)