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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741390903321

Autore

Flanagan Mary <1969->

Titolo

Playing oppression : the legacy of conquest and empire in colonialist board games / / Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]

ISBN

0-262-37371-8

0-262-37372-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Disciplina

794

Soggetti

Imperialism - Social aspects

Board games - Moral and ethical aspects

Imperialism

Board games

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Colonial fantasies -- Establishing mindsets -- World as empire -- Trading excuses -- Winners & losers -- Explorers and exploiters -- Representations of the other -- Urgency and hope -- Glossary

Sommario/riassunto

"A critical investigation of a massive commercial phenomenon, the so-called "Euro" or "German"-style tabletop board games whose basic goal is explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"--