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History from Between

MILLER, DAVID PHILIP

Technology and Culture, 2011, Vol.52 (3), p.610-613 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
History from Between
Autor: MILLER, DAVID PHILIP
Assuntos: ESSAY REVIEWS ; Eurocentrism ; Intelligence ; Knowledge ; Mediation ; Modernity ; Native peoples ; Nonfiction ; Schaffer, Simon ; Science history ; World history
É parte de: Technology and Culture, 2011, Vol.52 (3), p.610-613
Descrição: The Brokered World and its depiction of the crucial role of “go-betweens” in the development of modernity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The impulse behind this history from between is found to be similar to the 1960s movement for a history from below. While convinced that this critique of the idea of European imperial acquisition of the “view from nowhere” is well placed, the reviewer notes the dangers of over-valorizing the role of the go-between if broad, secular economic and cultural change and its constraints are not duly considered. Capturing the complexities of modernization is no easier from the sole viewpoint of the go-between than from that of the imperial impresario.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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