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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press : Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902
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'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 coverage. Studying each conflict in turn, the book explores the expressions of feeling that arose within and between the Australian colonies and Britain. It argues that settler and imperial narratives required constant defending and maintaining. This process led to tensions between Britain and the colonies, and also to vivid displays of mutual affection. The book examines how war narratives merged with ideas of territorial ownership and productivity, racial anxieties, self-governance, and foundational violence. In doing so it draws out the rationales and emotions that both fortified and unsettled settler societies.' (Publication summary)

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Palgrave Macmillan ,
      2017 .
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      Extent: 299p.
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      • Published 20 November 2017
      ISBN: 9783319637747

Works about this Work

Imperial Feeling, Colonial Wars and Settler Forgetting: Australia's Involvement in British Foreign Conflict before Gallipoli Mick Warren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 25 no. 2 2022; (p. 292-295)

— Review of Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press : Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902 Sam Hutchinson , 2017 selected work criticism

'The ‘Imperial struggle’ at the heart of the Anzac legend, increasingly cherished as a myth of nationhood, is something that the Australian community has ‘learned to forget’, to borrow Mark McKenna's memorable phrase.  As Hutchinson observes in Settlers, War and Empire in the Press, Australia's imperial origins as a penal colony have also become part of ‘a strange and curious past’ as Britain has distanced itself from the Commonwealth. Harder to reconcile, however, has been the history of Indigenous–settler relations. ‘Though the sun formally set on Britain's empire some time ago’, writes Hutchinson, ‘the structure of settler colonialism remains. Modern Australia remains a product of Aboriginal dispossession’ (p 195).'  (Introduction)

Imperial Feeling, Colonial Wars and Settler Forgetting: Australia's Involvement in British Foreign Conflict before Gallipoli Mick Warren , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , vol. 25 no. 2 2022; (p. 292-295)

— Review of Settlers, War, and Empire in the Press : Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1863-1902 Sam Hutchinson , 2017 selected work criticism

'The ‘Imperial struggle’ at the heart of the Anzac legend, increasingly cherished as a myth of nationhood, is something that the Australian community has ‘learned to forget’, to borrow Mark McKenna's memorable phrase.  As Hutchinson observes in Settlers, War and Empire in the Press, Australia's imperial origins as a penal colony have also become part of ‘a strange and curious past’ as Britain has distanced itself from the Commonwealth. Harder to reconcile, however, has been the history of Indigenous–settler relations. ‘Though the sun formally set on Britain's empire some time ago’, writes Hutchinson, ‘the structure of settler colonialism remains. Modern Australia remains a product of Aboriginal dispossession’ (p 195).'  (Introduction)

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