Imagined Sovereignties : The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

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Imagined Sovereignties probes the enormous force that 'the power of the people' exercises on our thought and practice. It explores collective identity and popular power in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment and revolutionary Haiti. Through this critical history, it provokes new ways of imagining 'the power of the people'.