Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press

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This book explores the creation of imperial identities in Britain and several of its colonies - South Africa, India, Australia, Wales - and the ways in which the Victorian press around the world shaped and reflected these identities. The concept of co-histories, borrowed from Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, helps explain how the press shaped the imperial and national identities of Britain and of the colonies into co-histories that were thoroughly intertwined and symbiotic. Exploring a variety of press media, this book argues that the press was a site of resistance and revision by colonized authors and publishers, as well as a force of colonial authority for the British government. editors, and publishers, who projected a view of the empire to their British, colonial, and colonized readers. Topics include The Journal of Indian Art and Industry produced by the British art schools in India, women's periodicals, Indian writers in the British press, The Imperial Gazetteer published in Scotland, the rise of telegraphic news agencies, the British press's images of China seen through exhibitions of its art, the Tory periodical Blackwood's Magazine, and the Imperial Press Conference of 1909. University. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imperial Co-Histories and the British and Colonial Press Scripting South Asia’s Visual Past: The Journal of Indian Art and Industry and the Production of Knowledge in the Late Nineteenth Century An Imagined World: The Imperial Gazetteer ‘‘The Software of Empire’’: Telegraphic News Agencies and Imperial Publicity, 1865–1914 Imperial Self-Representation: Constructions of Empire in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1880–1900 Selling the Mother Country to the Empire: The Imperial Press Conference of June 1909 Constructing South Africa in the British Press, 1890–92: The Pall Mall Gazette, the Daily Graphic, and The Times Objects and the Press: Images of China in Nineteenth-Century Britain ‘‘True Englishwomen’’ and ‘‘Anglo-Indians’’: Gender, National Identity, and Feminism in the Victorian Women’s Periodical Press The Empire Writes Back: Native Informant Discourse in the Victorian Press History by Installment: The Australian Centenary and the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886–1888 Welsh Missionary Journalism in India, 1880–1947 ‘‘There is Nothing More Poetical than War’’: Romanticism, Orientalism, and Militarism in J. W. Kaye’s Narratives of the Conquest of India Notes on Contributors BIBLIOGRAPHY Index