Publisher's Synopsis
CONTENTS: Introduction: Movable Type, Mobile Nations; Pulp, The Armed Services Editions & GI Reading During WWII; Legions, Laws & Language: Book History & English Hegemony; Books, Swords, & Readers: The Albatross Press & the Third Reich; Social Networks: Modeling the Transnational Distribution & Production of Books; The Serial Revolution at the Periphery; Fiction & the Other Reader: The Reception of Imperial Adventure Romance in Africa; Indian Ocean Pages: Port Cities & Postcolonial Printing; The Scripts of Nationalism: Between the Lines of Premchand's "Kafan"; Book History & the Metonymies of the Text.
