Dockside reading. hydrocolonialism and the custom house, paperback/isabel hofmeyr

Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationship between print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British colonial custom houses, which acted as censors and pronounced on copyright and checked imported printed matter for piracy, sedition, or obscenity.

Publisher: Duke University Press Author(s): Isabel Hofmeyr Illustration(s): 3 illustrations Number of pages: 136 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 12 Cover type: Paperback / softback.