Dockside Reading : Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House - 9781478017745

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.

• | : Isabel Hofmeyr
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 11, 2022
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1478017740
• | ISBN-13: 9781478017745