Discussions on how to decolonise academia are far from new. As scholars, we are keenly aware that the current privileged knowledge structures have co-built the world we live in with all its shortcomings. Besides the wider effects of these discourses and narratives, the way in which we have studied book history has also been affected. This was the larger topic that gave way to the panel on decolonising book history that took place during SHARP in Focus on 15 June 2020 organised by Melanie Ramdarshan Bold and Danielle Fuller. ☛ ☞
Tag: colonialism
Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911
Charles V. Reed. Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016….
Michael Eamon. Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America
Michael Eamon. Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas….
Struggle and Story: Canada in Print
Struggle and Story: Canada in Print The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto 20 March–9 September 2017 Retired…
Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680
Christopher N. Warren. Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii, 286p., ill. ISBN 9780198719342….