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Author Scott, David, 1958- author.

Title Conscripts of modernity : the tragedy of colonial enlightenment / David Scott
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Futures past -- Romanticism and the longing for anticolonial revolution -- Conscripts of modernity -- Toussaint's tragic dilemma -- The tragedy of colonial enlightenment
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989. Black Jacobins
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
SUBJECT Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 fast
Black Jacobins (James, C. L. R.) fast
Subject Postcolonialism -- History
Historiography.
History -- Philosophy.
History -- Periodization.
Literature and history.
historiography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
Historiography
History -- Periodization
History -- Philosophy
Literature and history
Postcolonialism
Koloniale periode.
Geschiedschrijving.
Tragedies.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822386186
0822386186