Written culture in a colonial context : Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 / / edited by Adrien Delmas, Nigel Penn.

• Superior document: African history ; v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Delmas, Adrien.; Penn, Nigel.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (411 p.)
• Notes: Papers first presented at a conference at the University of Cape Town in Dec. 2008.; Previously published: UCT Press, 2011.

Recent developments in the cultural history of written culture have omitted the specificity of practices relative to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. The circulation of manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role in the process of the first globalization from...