European Empires and the People: Popular responses to imperialism in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy (Studies in Imperialism, 86) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719079942 ISBN 13: 9780719079948

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

John M. MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at Lancaster University

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0719079942
• ISBN 13: 9780719079948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: MacKenzie John M.