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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Conscripts of Modernity The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
Author: David Scott
At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history—when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism—David Scott argues the need to reconceptualize the past in order to reimagine a more usable future. He describes how, prior to independence, anticolonialists narra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822334330
ISBN-10: 082233433X
Publication Date: 12/2004
Pages: 279
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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