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Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
In Soldier's Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa's military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across the continent, independence was followed by a wave of military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them had a vision. In Nigeria and other former British colonies, officers governed like they fought battles-to them, politics was war by other means. Civilians were subjected...
6) Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the...