Summary:
"In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of what he terms transcendence - the

Contents

List of Figures and maps
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.Sustainability and the crisis of transcendence
2.Circulatory and Competitive histories
3.The historical logics of global modernity
4.Dialogical and radical transcendence
5.Dialogical transcendence and secular nationalism in the Sinosphere
6.The traffic between Secularism and transcendence
7.Regions of circulation and networks of sustainability in Asia

Reprise and Epilogue : of reason and hope
Bibliography

Index