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Autore |
Scott David |
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Titolo |
Conscripts of Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Postcolonialism - History |
Historiography - Philosophy |
History - Periodization |
History |
Literature and history |
Latin America |
Regions & Countries - Americas |
History & Archaeology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Prologue; One: Futures Past; Two: Romanticism and the Longing for Anticolonial Revolution; Three: Conscripts of Modernity; Four: Toussaint's Tragic Dilemma; Five: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Uses C.L.R. James'sThe Black Jacobins as a jumping-off point for a reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial concepts of history, politics, and agency. |
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