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The Edinburgh companion to British colonial periodicals / edited by David Finkelstein, David Johnson and Caroline Davis.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]
Description
xiv, 563 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Great Britain
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Periodicals
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History and criticism
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Imperialism
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Periodicals
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Great Britain
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Colonies
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Periodicals
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Related name
Finkelstein, David, 1964-
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Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-
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Davis, Caroline, 1964-
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Series
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
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Summary note
The first major overview of British colonial periodicals from the rise of the Empire to decolonisation.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Intro
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: British Colonial Periodicals in Context
Part I: Creating and Contesting the Colonial Public Sphere
1. Authorship and Collective Self-Fashioning in Pre-Confederation English Canada
2. Early Colonial Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Canada: The Literary Garland in Context
3. The Afro-Caribbean Press and the Politics of Place in Jamaica and Barbados: The Watchman and Jamaica Free Press and The Liberal
4. Mofussil versus Metropolis, Subalterns versus Seniors: The Rise and Demise of The Meerut Universal Magazine
5. Writing the 'Wooden World': Periodicals and Settler Environmental Knowledge in Colonial New Zealand
6. British Missionary Magazines at Home and Abroad: Southern Africa as Topic and Southern Africans as Readership
7. The Sydney Bulletin and the Settler Colonial Subject
8. Periodicals and Australian Federation
9. The South African News and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
10. The Weekly West Africa: Commerce, Empire and Decolonisation
Part II: Women and Colonial Periodicals
11. Transnational Reprinting and the Colonial Women's Magazine: The Montreal Museum, 1832-4
12. The Birth of the Australian Women's Magazine: The New Idea, 1902-11
13. Women's Writing and Reporting on Women in the Ghanaian and Nigerian Press, c. 1880-1930s
14. Indian Women's Pre-Independence Periodicals in English: The Indian Ladies' Magazine, Stri-Dharma and the Indian New Woman
15. Marriage Hygiene and the Internationalisation of Eugenical Sexology in the 1930s
Part III: Language and Colonial Periodicals
16. Making Mαori Citizens in Colonial New Zealand: The Role of Government niupepa
17. Language and the Making of the Colonial Modern: Periodicals from Late Nineteenth-Century Kerala, India
18. Simple Letters? British and Pacific Literacies in the Victorian Missionary Periodical
19. Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897-1909
20. Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa: Mambo Leo and Habari
21. Print Networks and Linguistic Interaction in the Early Yoruba Press
22. Colonial Entanglements: Black South African Periodicals and the Colonial Printsphere, 1920s-30s
Part IV: Trans-Colonial Connections in Colonial Periodicals
23. Samuel Revans and Company: Colonial Commercial Trade Newspapers in the Age of Responsible Government
24. Colonial Trade Identity and Labour Information Exchange in the International Typographical Trade Press, 1840-1910
25. The Anglo-Zulu War in the Friend of India: Mediation, Meaning and Authority
26. British Anarchism and the Colonial Question: The Case of Freedom, 1918-62
27. The Atlantic Charter in British Colonial Periodicals
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ISBN
9781399500630 (hardcover)
1399500635 (hardcover)
OCLC
1420622856
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