Rhetorics of empire (eBook, PDF)

Languages of colonial conflict after 1900
Redaktion: Thomas, Martin; Toye, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why did imperialist language remain so pervasive in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout much of the twentieth century? What rhetorical devices did political leaders, administrators, investors and lobbyists use to justify colonial domination before domestic and foreign audiences? How far did their colonial opponents mobilize a different rhetoric of rights and freedoms to challenge them? These questions are at the heart of this collection. Essays range from Theodore Roosevelt's articulation of American imperialism in the early 1900s to the rhetorical battles surrounding European decolonization in the late twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526120496
• Artikelnr.: 60361918

Autorenporträt

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

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