Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott

Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment

David Scott

296 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 reima...

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