Imagining the Twentieth Century: Retrospective, Myth, and the Colonial Question

Retrospectives on the twentieth century often portray it as the most atrocious century in human history, in terms of totalising ideologies, moral abandonment, technological horror, and mass death. The nineteenth and earlier centuries, by contrast, emerge as progressive and enlightened eras, characte...

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Main Author: David B MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2007-01-01
Series:PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
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Online Access:http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/302