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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Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2020
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