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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955056903321

Autore

Scott David <1958->

Titolo

Conscripts of modernity : the tragedy of colonial enlightenment / / David Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004

ISBN

9780822386186

0822386186

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

320.9/045

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - History

Historiography

History - Philosophy

History - Periodization

Literature and history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Futures past -- Romanticism and the longing for anticolonial revolution -- Conscripts of modernity -- Toussaint's tragic dilemma -- The tragedy of colonial enlightenment.

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.