Shared Histories of Modernity

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the ''time'' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into ''pre-modern'' and ''modern'', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared experiences o...