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“Spread a Rainbow Over His Disastrous Set of Sun”: The Comedy of Colonial Enlightenment

by Arielle Xena Alterwaite

This essay is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”

January 26, 2026
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