Media And the British Empire (Hardcover)

Introduction; C.Kaul 'To Enlighten South Africa': The Creation of a Free Press at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century; J.M.Mackenzie 'The Thinking is Done in London': South Africa's English Language Press and Imperialism; J.Lambert 'The Old Pals Protection Society?' The Colonial Office and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation; J.Lewis & P.Murphy The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1848-56; S.Williams Ernest Jones' Mutiny: The People's Paper , English Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857-58; T.Pratt Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill's Press Campaign Against Constitutional Reform in India, 1929-1935; I.St.John India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire, 1909-1946; C.Kaul 'Business as Usual'?: British Newsreel Coverage of Indian Independence and Partition, 1947-1948; P.Woods Purity, Obscenity, and the Making of an Imperial Censorship System; D.Heath Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in Imperial News and Cable Communication, 1870-1912; D.Cryle A 'Sense of Common Citizenship'? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire; R.Harvey That Some Must Suffer for the Greater Good: The Post Courier and the Bougainville Crisis; P.Cass The Influence of the British Empire Through the Development of Communications in Canada: French Radio Broadcasting During the Second World War; A.Canuel Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang's 'Indigenous' English Press; S.L.Lewis Bibliography