Heroic imperialists in Africa : the promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870-1939 / Berny Sebe.

By:

S�ebe, Berny [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013Distributor: New York, NY : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781526103505
1526103508

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heroic imperialists in Africa.DDC classification:

941.0810922 23

LOC classification:

DA562

Other classification:

8,2
8,2.

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Part I. Contexts. The emergence of a new type of hero : British and French contexts -- Imperial heroes and the market I : the printed world -- Imperial heroes and the market II : the audiovisual world -- Part II. Uses. Imperial heroes and domestic politics -- Cross-channel entente? : the values embodied by imperial heroes -- Part III. Case studies. The creation of the Marchand legend, 1895-1906 -- George Warrington Steevens, Blackwood Publishers and the making of With Kitchener to Khartoum.

Summary: "From David Livingstone to Charles de Foucauld, from Pierre Savorgan de Brazza to General Gordon, from the 'Sirdar' Kitchener to Jean-Baptiste Marchand, these standard-bearers of the 'civilising mission', armed with Bible or rifle, often both, became widely celebrated in their metropoles, with their exploits splashed across the front pages of the penny press, inspiring generations of biographers, painters and, later, film-makers. ... Berny S�ebe explores in comparative perspective the ways in which heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged from the height of 'New Imperialism' until the Second World War."--Page 4 of cover.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings ( 0 )
Title notes ( 5 )

No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed September 15, 2016).

"From David Livingstone to Charles de Foucauld, from Pierre Savorgan de Brazza to General Gordon, from the 'Sirdar' Kitchener to Jean-Baptiste Marchand, these standard-bearers of the 'civilising mission', armed with Bible or rifle, often both, became widely celebrated in their metropoles, with their exploits splashed across the front pages of the penny press, inspiring generations of biographers, painters and, later, film-makers. ... Berny S�ebe explores in comparative perspective the ways in which heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged from the height of 'New Imperialism' until the Second World War."--Page 4 of cover.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide