Modern Inquisitions : Peru and the colonial origins of the civilized world /
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes...
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Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004
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Series: | Latin America otherwise.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |