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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scott, David, 1958-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989. Black Jacobins.
James, C. L. R.
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
Toussaint Louverture.
Postcolonialism--History.
Postcolonialism.
Historiography.
History--Philosophy.
History.
History--Periodization.
Literature and history.
Physical Description:
279 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Contents:
Futures past
Romanticism and the longing for anticolonial revolution
Conscripts of modernity
Toussaint's tragic dilemma
The tragedy of colonial enlightenment.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-270) and index.
ISBN:
082233433X
0822334445
OCLC:
55624555

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