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Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902

Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902

Hutchinson, Sam

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Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

General Military HistoryBritish HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3319876325
ISBN13: 9783319876320
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 31 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores how public commentary framed Australian involvement in the Waikato War (1863-64), the Sudan crisis (1885), and the South African War (1899-1902), a succession of conflicts that reverberated around the British Empire and which the newspaper press reported at length. It reconstructs the ways these conflicts were understood and reflected in the colonial and British press, and how commentators responded to the shifting circumstances that shaped the mood of their coverage. Studying each conflict in turn, the book explores the expressions of feeling that arose within and between the Australian colonies and Britain. It argues that settler and imperial narratives required constant defending and maintaining. This process led to tensions between Britain and the colonies, and also to vivid displays of mutual affection. The book examines how war narratives merged with ideas of territorial ownership and productivity, racial anxieties, self-governance, and foundational violence. In doing so it draws out the rationales and emotions that both fortified and unsettled settler societies.

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