HIS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Acehnese Language, Historical Method, Edward Said
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Name of lecture: different understandings, history of empires, history of the rest, history of the world, etc, accurate and logic in what is expressed in these terms. North americans, not them: many people include some of the best considered historians believed in this. Emphasis on western institutions there is a history of how inquiry has developed over time being shaped by relationships of european relations with other societies. Suggests homogametic society the rest is grouped together. Some people talk about colonial and (tosh) discusses the post-colonial world: says the post-colonial is after colonialism, but it is more complex then this, has within it more complex ideas of relations of power. Even the us could be regarded as a post-colonial society but again, it is not saying that pc is when countries gain their territories (were settled by 5 empires b, f, n, r, s)