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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
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| #632611 in Books | 2004-12-03 | 2004-12-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.88 x.73 x5.75l,.85 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Mom with Ph.D.|A very thoughtful and original project.|4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful|By Irami Osei-Frimpong|Scott serves up a trenchant rehearsal of C.L.R. James' historical, moral, and political imagination, and what these qualities mean for the project of doing history.
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"[R]eaders… will find it a provocative and insightful challenge for postcolonial studies of the Caribbean and other world regions…. Conscripts of Modernity marks a significant step forward in the project of exploring critical historie
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 narrated the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism as romance—as a story of overcoming and vindication, of salv...
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