Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

Duke University Press (2004)
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DIVUses 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./div.

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