European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy (Studies in Imperialism)
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John M. MacKenzie (Contributor)
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This is the first book to survey in comparative form the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters, focusing on France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, provide parallel studies of the manner in which colonial ambitions and events in the respective European empires were given wider popular visibility. The international group of contributors, who are all scholars working at the cutting edge of these fields, place their work in the context of governmental policies, the economic bases of imperial expansion, major events such as wars of conquest, the emergence of myths of heroic action in exotic contexts, religious and missionary impulses, as well as the new media which facilitated such popular dissemination. Among these media were the press, international exhibitions, popular literature, educational institutions and methods, ceremonies, church sermons and lectures, monuments, paintings and much else. -- . Illustrations, black & white
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John M. MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at Lancaster University -- .
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- Contributor: John M. MacKenzie
- Imprint: Manchester University Press
- ISBN13: 9780719079948
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Release Date: 2011-02-01
- Series: Studies in Imperialism
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: John M. MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at Lancaster University -- .
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