The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. By Tamson Pietsch. Pp. 320. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2023. $40 (Cloth). ISBN 9780226825168 [Book Review]

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This exceptional volume uncovers the eight-month cruise of 500 US citizen-travellers as they circumnavigated the globe from September 1926 to May 1927. The SS Ryndham, a rusting tub in the Holland...

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