Abstract
The text we have is a chapter written by Gurminder K. Bhambra, extracted from a book talking about European Studies. In this chapter, the author wants to deconstruct the idea we have of modern Europe and its history in order to reconstruct our understandings of Europe in a postcolonial context. Hence, she tries to discredit the narratives of the European construction and to show we cannot claim they are universal, because European colonialist history belies them. Actually, she dismantles the idea that Europe was built as a pattern in the world, against external entities (what she calls "non-Europe").
Bhambra's theory was never brought forward before; it puts a stop to eurocentrism, because historical approaches which integrate the important role of colonialism allow us to think Europe from a global perspective. Consequently, we may understand European particularities in a new perspective (as well as the ones of others) because we do not longer consider European construction as a model for the rest of the world. By this way, Europe will find its own identity, according to the author.
