Books for Development by Jody Mason (Paperback Book)

Name: Books for Development by Jody Mason (Paperback Book)
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

Canadian book culture has served, in both domestic and international contexts, to underpin a moralizing rhetoric of enlightened liberal tolerance for difference. Between 1945 and the end of the 1970s the book \u2013 as object, as symbol, as idea \u2013 was used within the context of the development paradigm to express solidarity with newly decolonized nations, to argue for the importance of Canadian leadership in the new international order, and to secure settler liberal rule at home.\nThe confluence of books and a national brand was shaped during the postwar decades by a liberal internationalism that privileged the book, and the associated skill of literacy, as a tool of development. Jody Mason analyzes how governmental and non-governmental actors deployed books as instruments of development in\n\nBooks for Development\nCanada in the Late Twentieth-Century World\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked service;