Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902 /

• Main Author: Hutchinson, Sam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Military history.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Military.

This book explores how public commentary framed Australian involvement in the Waikato War (1863-64), the Sudan crisis (1885), and the South African War (1899-1902), a succession of conflicts that reverberated around the British Empire and which the newspaper press reported at length. It reconstructs...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Symptoms of Empire
• 3. The Waikato War: Rights and Industry
• 4. The Waikato War: Race and Philanthropy
• 5. The Sudan Crisis: Displays of Unity
• 6. The Sudan Crisis: Creating Historical Memories
• 7. The South African War: Trying Again
• 8. The South African War: Points of Fracture
• 9. Conclusion.