Rhetorics of empire : languages of colonial conflict after 1900
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Rhetorics of empire : languages of colonial conflict after 1900
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2017
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
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-Kebir 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
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