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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777995303321

Autore

Scott David

Titolo

Conscripts of Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8223-8618-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

320.9/045

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - History

Historiography - Philosophy

History - Periodization

History

Literature and history

Latin America

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.