Arif Dirlik is professor of history at Duke University.

• Preface -- Credits -- Introduction: Postcoloniality and the Perspective of History -- Culturalism as Hegemonic Ideology and Liberating Practice -- The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism -- The Global in the Local -- Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism -- There Is More in the Rim than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea" -- Three Worlds or One, or Many? The Reconfiguration of Global Relations Under Contemporary Capitalism -- Postcolonial or Postrevolutionary? The Problem of History in Postcolonial Criticism -- The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture -- The Past as Legacy and Project: Postcolonial Criticism in the Perspective of Indigenous Historicism