Rhetorics of Empire: Languages of Colonial Conflict After 1900

by Richard Toye

Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empire in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why did imperialist language remain so pervasive in Britain, France and elsewhere throughout much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526120488
• ISBN13: 9781526120489
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"