The only true history of a country, wrote Thomas Macaulay, is to be found in its newspapers. Yet in the past scholars of imperial history and of the media have worked in separate, compartmentalized spheres and it is only recently that an integrationist approach has been taken towards studying the imperial experience. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perpective of the colonised as well as the colonisers.
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"Media and the British Empire is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of essays, which describe and examine the role of the media in the empire during the 19th and 20th centuries. As some of the contributions dramatically illustrate, that role was extremely significant." - Bill Kirkman, The Round Table
"Media and the British Empire is thoroughly interdisciplinary. It innovatively integrates media and imperial politics across the colonies, as well as within them, and synthesizes specific incidents with theoretical explorations of media permeability that permitted local and even individual voices to resist imperial power. These essays, conveying how Victorian press developments persisted well into the twentieth century, offer incisive, counter-intuitive insights into the ways national and class identities cohere and diffuse around the reporting of events. Despite collaborations with the politically powerful, media do not fully control news reception and can be undone by rumor or individual persistence. Without erasing realities of imperial repression, this excellent anthology reassesses empire as non-monolithic, dialogic, dialectical processes subject to highly nuanced metropolitan and colonial imperial media variables to expand our understanding of the complex textures of imperial media." - Julie F. Codell, Victorian Studies
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CHANDRIKA KAUL is Lecturer in Modern British and Imperial History at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. Her research interests include the British press and empire 1850-1950, the Indian press, and communications in world history. She is author of the first detailed monograph examining the British press coverage of India titled Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, 1880-1922 (Manchester, 2003). She is currently working on a history of the Empire/Commonwealth Press Union.
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`To Enlighten South Africa': The Creation of a Free Press at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century |
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`The thinking is done in London': South Africa's English Language Press and Imperialism |
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`The Old Pals' Protection Society'? The Colonial Office and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation |
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The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1948--56 |
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Ernest Jones' Mutiny: The People's Paper, English Popular Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857--58 |
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Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill's Press Campaign against Constitutional Reform in India, 1929--1935 |
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India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire, 1909--1946 |
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`Business as Usual'? British Newsreel Coverage of Indian Independence and Partition, 1947--1948 |
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145 | (15) |
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Purity, Obscenity and the Making of an Imperial Censorship System |
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Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in Imperial News and Cable Communication (1870--1912) |
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A `Sense of Common Citizenship'? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire |
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`That some must suffer for the greater good': The Post Courier and the 1969 Bougainville Crisis |
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The Influence of the British Empire through the Development of Communications in Canada: French Radio Broadcasting during the Second World War |
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Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang's `Indigenous' English Press |
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| Select Bibliography and Further Reading |
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ALAIN CANUEL Researcher PHILIP CASS Acting Assistant Dean, College of Communication and Media Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE DENIS CRYLE Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Central Queensland University, Australia ROSS HARVEY Professor of Library and Information Management, Charles Sturt University, Australia DEANA HEATH Lecturer in South Asian and World History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland JOHN LAMBERT Associate Professor, Department of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa JOANNA LEWIS Lecturer in Imperial and African History, Department of International History, London School of Economics, UK SU LIN LEWIS Researcher JOHN M. MACKENZIE Professor Emeritus of Imperial History, Lancaster University, UK PHILIP MURPHY Reader in Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Reading, UK TIM PRATT Researcher IAN ST. JOHN Researcher MARK TULLY Researcher SUSAN WILLIAMS Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK PHILIP WOODS Lecturer in History, Thames Valley University, UK
