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  1. Oceans as the Paradigm of History.Prasenjit Duara - 2021 - Theory, Culture and Society 38 (7-8):143-166.
    The temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. Historical processes are not linear and tunneled but circulatory and global, like oceanic currents. The argument of distributed agency deriving from the ‘ontological turn’ dovetails with the oceanic paradigm of circulatory histories. The latter allows us to grasp modes of both natural and historical inter-temporal communication through the medium of the natural and built environment. Yet the inclination in these new studies to deny any (...)
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    Nationalism, imperialism, federalism, and the example of manchukuo a response to Anthony Pagden.Prasenjit Duara - 2006 - Common Knowledge 12 (1):47-65.
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    The regime of authenticity: Timelessness, gender, and national history inmodern china.Prasenjit Duara - 1998 - History and Theory 37 (3):287–308.
    While there is much writing on the nation as the subject of linear history, considerably less attention has been paid to the dimension of the nation as the always identifiable, unchanging subject of history. This unchanging subject is necessitated by the ascendancy of the conception of linear time in capitalism in which change is viewed not only as accelerating, but can no longer be framed by an ultimate source of meaning such as God. Ostensibly, linear history is the falling of (...)
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    Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle between East and West.Prasenjit Duara - 2009 - Common Knowledge 15 (3):511-511.
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    David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxxii, 1050; color figures. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-1999-3498-0. [REVIEW]Prasenjit Duara - 2022 - Speculum 97 (2):469-470.
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