Fighting words: fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world - 1 (New edition.)

Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they plated in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century?

To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?

This title responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century.