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 c...
Table des matières
1. Introduction.- 2. Symptoms of Empire.- 3. The Waikato War: Rights and Industry.- 4. The Waikato War: Race and Philanthropy .- 5. The Sudan Crisis: Displays o...
A propos de l’auteur
Sam Hutchinson received his Ph D from the University of Western Australia in 2015. He is currently employed as a historian in Wellington, New Zealand.