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Informationen zum Autor Berny Sèbe is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Birmingham Klappentext This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported, and benefited from, these heroic stories. Zusammenfassung This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel! revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades! and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported! and benefited from! these heroic stories. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The emergence of a new type of hero: British and French contexts2. Imperial heroes and the market I: the written world3. Imperial heroes and the market II: the audiovisual world4. Imperial heroes and domestic politics5. Cross-Channel Entente? The values embodied by imperial heroes6. The creation of the Marchand legend, 1895-19067. George Warrington Steevens, Blackwood Publishers and the making of 'With Kitchener to Khartoum'
