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Autore |
Scott David <1958-> |
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Titolo |
Conscripts of modernity : the tragedy of colonial enlightenment / / David Scott |
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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 |
History - Philosophy |
History - Periodization |
Literature and history |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Futures past -- Romanticism and the longing for anticolonial revolution -- Conscripts of modernity -- Toussaint's tragic dilemma -- The tragedy of colonial enlightenment. |
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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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