Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

Author/Contributor(s):	Hofmeyr, Isabel
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	02/11/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.