Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press : Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902 (9783319876320)

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 the ways these conflicts were understood and reflected in the colonial and British press, and how commentators responded to the shifting circumstances that shaped the mood of their coverage. Studying each conflict in turn, the book explores the expressions of feeling that arose within and between the Australian colonies and Britain. It argues that settler and imperial narratives required constant defending and maintaining. This process led to tensions between Britain and the colonies, and also to vivid displays of mutual affection. The book examines how war narratives merged with ideas of territorial ownership and productivity, racial anxieties, self-governance, and foundational violence. In doing so it draws out the rationales and emotions that both fortified and unsettled settler societies.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 288 pages
• Dimensions 148 x 210 x 16mm | 454g
• Publication date 31 Aug 2018
• Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
• Publication City/Country Cham, Switzerland
• Language English
• Edition Statement Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
• Illustrations note XI, 288 p.
• ISBN10 3319876325
• ISBN13 9783319876320

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