Enchantments of Modernity

Enchantments of Modernity

Saurabh Dube

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9780415602891
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This volume eschews programmatic solutions, focusing in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and vernacular modernity, imperial imperatives and nationalist knowledge, cosmopolitan politics and liberal democracy, and governmental effects and everyday affects.

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