This is the first book to survey in comparative form the
transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European
countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters,
focusing on France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and
Italy, provide parallel studies of the manner in which colonial
ambitions and events in the respective European empires were given
wider popular visibility. The international group of contributors,
who are all scholars working at the cutting edge of these fields,
place their work in the context of governmental policies, the
economic bases of imperial expansion, major events such as wars of
conquest, the emergence of myths of heroic action in exotic
contexts, religious and missionary impulses, as well as the new
media which facilitated such popular dissemination. Among these
media were the press, international exhibitions, popular
literature, educational institutions and methods, ceremonies,
church sermons and lectures, monuments, paintings and much else.
Some attempt is made to consider public responses, in terms of
voting patterns, government popularity or the lack of it, as well
as in the spheres of economic and social development bound up with
industrialization, commerce, employment, and emigration.
Fascinating trans-national similarities, as well as significant
differences, emerge from this approach, nonetheless revealing that
imperialism often constituted a dominant ideology in these
countries. This book will be of interest to scholars and teachers
of European and imperial history and cultural and media studies.
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