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African colonies
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British imperialism
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French imperialism
George Warrington Steevens
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Kitchener legend
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Marchand legend
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With Kitchener to Khartoum
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- ISBN 9780719097515
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’.
Available in paperback for the first time, this book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories of Livingstone, Gordon and Kitchener from a radically new angle, and throwing light on their French counterparts, often less famous in the Anglophone world but certainly equally fascinating.
Berny Sèbe is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Birmingham
