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Heroic imperialists in Africa The promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870–1939

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Full Title

Heroic imperialists in Africa The promotion of British and French colonial heroes, 1870–1939

Author(s)

Berny Sèbe

Edition
ISBN

9781526103512, 9780719097515, 9781526103505, 9780719084928

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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’. 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.