Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Prologue 1
4. One Futures Past 23
5. Two Romanticism and the Longing for Anticolonial Revolution 58
6. Three Conscripts of Modernity 98
7. Four Toussaint’s Tragic Dilemma 132
8. Five The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment 170
9. Epilogue 209
10. Notes 223
11. Acknowledgments 271
12. Index 273