Thomas / Toye Rhetorics of empire

Languages of colonial conflict after 1900
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2049-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 149, 280 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial ‘civilizing’, and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Martin

Toye, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: rhetorics of empire – Martin Thomas and Richard Toye
1 ‘The people are grateful’: the discourse of modernization in the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899–1902 – Elizabeth van Heyningen
2 ‘We don’t want a pirate empire’: imperial governance, the Transvaal crisis, and the anxieties of Liberal rhetoric on empire – Simon Mackley
3 Civilization, empire and humanity: Theodore Roosevelt's second corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – Charlie Laderman
4 Franklin D. Roosevelt and America’s empire of anti-imperialism – Andrew Preston
5 ‘The real question at issue’: Mers el-Kébir and the rhetoric of imperial confrontation in July 1940 – Rachel Chin
6 French late colonial rhetoric, “myth” and imperial reason – Martin Shipway
7 ‘Boom! goes the Congo’: the rhetoric of control and Belgium’s late colonial state – Matthew Stanard
8 The hard side of soft power: Spanish rhetorics of empire from the 1950s to the 1970s – Andreas Stucki
9 Repression, reprisals, and rhetorics of massacre in Algeria’s war – Martin Thomas
10 Arguing about Hola Camp: the rhetorical consequences of a colonial massacre – Richard Toye
11 Extended families or bodily decomposition? Biological metaphors in the age of European decolonization - Elizabeth Buettner
12 Rhetoric of the realm: monarchy in New Zealand, political rhetoric and adjusting to the end of empire - Harshan Kumarasingham
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter