Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

by David Scott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334445
• ISBN13: 9780822334446
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"