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Media and the British Empire [electronic resource] / edited by Chandrika Kaul.

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The 14 broad-ranging and innovative essays in this collection examine the role of media and communications in shaping the British imperial experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With perspectives drawn from both the peripheral context of the colonised and the metropolitan gaze of the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Kaul, Chandrika (Lecturer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of the media.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Colonies > In mass media.
British > Foreign countries > Historiography.
British > Press coverage > Foreign countries.
Great Britain > Colonies > Press coverage.
Great Britain > Colonies > Historiography.
Imperialism > Press coverage.
Imperialism > Historiography.
British colonies.
Historiography.
Mass media.
Press coverage.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory survey / Chandrika Kaul
  • 'To enlighten South Africa' : the creation of a free press at the Cape in the early nineteenth century / John M. MacKenzie
  • 'The thinking is done in London' : South Africa's English language press and imperialism / John Lambert
  • 'The old pals' protection society'? The colonial office and the British press on the eve of decolonisation / Joanna Lewis and Philip Murphy
  • The media and the exile of Seretse Khama : the Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1948-56 / Susan Williams
  • Ernest Jones' mutiny : The people's paper, English popular politics and the Indian rebellion, 1857-58 / Tim Pratt
  • Writing to the defence of empire : Winston Churchill's press campaign against constitutional reform in India, 1929-1935 / Ian St John
  • India, the imperial press conferences and the empire press union : the diplomacy of news in the politics of empire, 1909-1946 / Chandrika Kaul
  • 'Business as usual'? British newsreel coverage of Indian independence and partition, 1947-1948 / Philip Woods
  • Purity, obscenity and the making of an imperial censorship system / Deana Heath
  • Peripheral politics? Antipodean interventions in imperial news and cable communication (1870-1912) / Denis Cryle
  • A 'sense of common citizenship'? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, communicates with the empire / Ross Harvey
  • 'That some must suffer for the greater good' : the Post Courier and the 1969 Bougainville crisis / Philip Cass
  • The influence of the British empire through the development of communications in Canada : French radio broadcasting during the Second world war / Alain Canuel
  • Echoes of cosmopolitanism : colonial Penang's 'indigenous' English press / Su Lin Lewis.

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