Indigenous Textual Cultures Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire /

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the co...

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Other Authors: Ballantyne, Tony (Editor), Paterson, Lachy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [sine loco] : Duke University Press, 2020.
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