Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
by David Scott
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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.Tags
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David Scott is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author f of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment and the editor of Small Axe, both also published by Duke University Press.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- Important places
- Haiti; Hispaniola
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.9 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government Political situation and conditions
- LCC
- F1923 .S36 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Greater Antilles Haiti (Island). Hispaniola Haiti (Republic)
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