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

Reviews

'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

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Book Information
ISBN 9780719079955
Author John M. MacKenzie
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 14mm