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Informationen zum Autor Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Exeter Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter Klappentext An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial 'civilizing', and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices. Zusammenfassung An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial ‘civilizing’, and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: rhetorics of empire - Martin Thomas and Richard Toye1 'The people are grateful': the discourse of modernization in the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 - Elizabeth van Heyningen2 'We don't want a pirate empire': imperial governance, the Transvaal crisis, and the anxieties of Liberal rhetoric on empire - Simon Mackley3 Civilization, empire and humanity: Theodore Roosevelt's second corollary to the Monroe Doctrine - Charlie Laderman4 Franklin D. Roosevelt and America's empire of anti-imperialism - Andrew Preston 5 'The real question at issue': Mers el-Kébir and the rhetoric of imperial confrontation in July 1940 - Rachel Chin6 French late colonial rhetoric, "myth" and imperial reason - Martin Shipway7 'Boom! goes the Congo': the rhetoric of control and Belgium's late colonial state - Matthew Stanard8 The hard side of soft power: Spanish rhetorics of empire from the 1950s to the 1970s - Andreas Stucki9 Repression, reprisals, and rhetorics of massacre in Algeria's war - Martin Thomas10 Arguing about Hola Camp: the rhetorical consequences of a colonial massacre - Richard Toye11 Extended families or bodily decomposition? Biological metaphors in the age of European decolonization - Elizabeth Buettner12 Rhetoric of the realm: monarchy in New Zealand, political rhetoric and adjusting to the end of empire - Harshan KumarasinghamIndex...
