HISTORY 2JJ3 Final: 2JJ3 LECTURE
24 Apr 2020
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Historian from dartmouth who promoted a eurocentric worldview hugh trevor roper: educated at oxford extremely distinguished, represented a mainstream thought at that time, against those challenging and expanding the field those doing history incorrectly. Racial categorizations: scientific racism w the rise of the slave trade btwn the 15th 19th c. Outside linear development backward: eurocentric narrative eu is the marker, hegel africa is no historical part of the world. Most history in the past did not come from european history but mediterrain: though transnational hybridization and trade. Eurocentrism: presupposition of eu superiority, eu theory of history as world history: all about hierarchies, eu had power so they could say who had history, privileges eu perceptions. Even abolitions believed that eu intervention would big the 3 c"s to africa: capitalism, civilization, christianity. In 2nd half of 18th c the debate about slave trade was hot. Seen as the other no history worth telling: as a living hell .
