Colonial rescue narratives portray the non-Western world as needing the West.

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• Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.83)
• Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial archives were sites of expectation and conjured futures, not mere records. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rulers sincerely believed their own religious and self-interested ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.81)
• Cannibal fiction legitimized European colonial territorial conquest (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.79)
• Official colonial correspondence was saturated by speculative, contested street-level voices. (similarity 0.79)
• A specific land serves as the central subject of this introduction (similarity 0.78)
• Full cultural assimilation cannot erase ineradicable traces of another place (similarity 0.78)
• Orientalist writing reduces the Orient to an occasion for Western male reverie. (similarity 0.78)