Fighting Words Fourteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World |
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| Editor:
| Davies, Dominic
Lombard, Erica
Mountford, Benjamin |
| Series title: | Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-906165-55-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2017 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $169.95 |
Book Description:
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Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.
Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.