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

by Sam Hutchinson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319637746
• ISBN13: 9783319637747
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"