Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial empires were broadcast into the popular domain.
Trade Review'This collection of essays deserves to be widely read and will provide a fine example for others to follow.'
Andrew S. Thompson, English Historical Review, CXXVIII
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Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Contributors
1. Introduction by John M. MacKenzie
2. Exalting Imperial Grandeur: the French Empire and its metropolitan public - Berny Sèbe
3. Passion or Indifference: popular imperialism in Britain, continuities and discontinuities over two centuries - John M. MacKenzie
4. Songs of an imperial underdog: imperialism and popular culture in the Netherlands, 1870-1960 - Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
5 .Learning to Love Leopold: Belgian popular imperialism, 1830-1960 -Matthew G. Stanard
6. Imagination and beyond: cultures and geographies of imperialism in Germany, 1848-1918 - Bernhard Gissibl
7. ‘The Peasants did not think of Africa’: Empire and the Italian state’s pursuit of legitimacy, 1871-1945 - Giuseppe Finaldi
8. Afterword - Matthew G. Stanard
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