{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals-9781399500630","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals","description":"This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the latest research into British colonial periodicals by leading scholars in the field. The first ever large-scale attempt to gather into one volume research on British colonial periodicals, the chapters in this volume analyse the fundamental role played by colonial periodicals in sustaining as well as contesting the economic, political and cultural hegemony of the British Empire from its inception to its fall. The volume considers both periodicals published in Britain for colonial consumption and those published in British colonies and dominions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaroline Davis is Associate Professor in Publishing in the Department of Information Studies at University College London. Caroline is the author of \u003ci\u003eCreating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eAfrican Literature and the CIA\u003c\/i\u003e (2020); the editor of \u003ci\u003ePrint Cultures: A Reader in Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (2019); and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book in Africa: Critical Debates\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Finkelstein is a cultural historian who has published in areas related to print, labour and press history. Recent publications include \u003ci\u003eMovable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and the edited \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the promotion of Victorian press studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eImagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eDreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (2019); and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eA Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); \u003ci\u003eThe Book in Africa: Critical Debates\u003c\/i\u003e (2015); and \u003ci\u003eLabour Struggles in Southern Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press series \u003ci\u003eKey Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929110188306,"sku":"9781399500630","price":224.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d52c371a-f1fd-431f-909a-8f6669a92f4b.jpg?v=1739032567","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals-9781399500630","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}