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Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments In Slow Reading

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Illustrator: Yes Topic: Publishing, Reading Skills, Journalism, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, Asia / India & South Asia, Europe / Great Britain / General, Political, Machinery, Historical Author: Isabel Hofmeyr Item Weight: 20 oz Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9780674072794 Item Height: 0.1 in Genre: Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, History Language: English Item Width: 0.6 in gtin13: 9780674072794 Publisher: Harvard University Press Book Title: Gandhi's Printing Press : Experiments in Slow Reading Publication Year: 2013 Number of Pages: 240 Pages Item Length: 0.8 in

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Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments In Slow Reading ISBN13: 9780674072794 ISBN10: 0674072790 Author: Hofmeyr, Isabel (Author) Description: At The Same Time That Gandhi, As A Young Lawyer In South Africa, Began Fashioning The Tenets Of His Political Philosophy, He Was Absorbed By A Seemingly Unrelated Enterprise: Creating A Newspaper Gandhi's Printing Press Is An Account Of How This Project, An Apparent Footnote To A Titanic Career, Shaped The Man Who Would Become The World-Changing Mahatma Pioneering Publisher, Experimental Editor, Ethical Anthologist--These Roles Reveal A Gandhi Developing The Qualities And Talents That Would Later Define Him Isabel Hofmeyr Presents A Detailed Study Of Gandhi's Work In South Africa (1893-1914), When He Was The Some-Time Proprietor Of A Printing Press And Launched The Periodical Indian Opinion The Skills Gandhi Honed As A Newspaperman--Distilling Stories From Numerous Sources, Circumventing Shortages Of Type--Influenced His Spare Prose Style Operating Out Of The Colonized Indian Ocean World, Gandhi Saw Firsthand How A Global Empire Depended On The Rapid Transmission Of Information Over Vast Distances He Sensed That Communication In An Industrialized Age Was Becoming Calibrated To Technological Tempos But He Responded By Slowing The Pace, Experimenting With Modes Of Reading And Writing Focused On Bodily, Not Mechanical, Rhythms Favoring The Use Of Hand-Operated Presses, He Produced A Newspaper To Contemplate Rather Than Scan, One More Likely To Excerpt Thoreau Than Feature Easily Glossed Headlines Gandhi's Printing Press Illuminates How The Concentration And Self-Discipline Inculcated By Slow Reading, Imbuing The Self With Knowledge And Ethical Values, Evolved Into Satyagraha, Truth-Force, The Cornerstone Of Gandhi's Revolutionary Idea Of Nonviolent Resistance Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication Date: 2013-03-05 Weight: 0.9 lbs Dimensions: 0.9'' H x 8.3'' L x 5.6'' W Number of Pages: 240 Language: English

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