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BLOG: Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the
Fashoda Crisis, 1898 [Imperial & Global Forum]
Discussion published by Marc-William Palen on Thursday, May 4, 2017
We are delighted to announce a new online collaboration
with our colleagues in the Department of History at the
University
of
Texas
at
Austin.
Not
Even
Past and the Imperial & Global Forum will be cross-posting
articles, sharing podcasts, and sponsoring discussions of
historical publications and events. We are launching our
joint initiative this month with a blog, cross-posted from Not
Even Past, based on a new book by Exeter’s own Martin
Thomas and Richard Toye, Arguing About Empire: Imperial
Rhetoric in Britain and France.
Citation: Marc-William Palen. BLOG: Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the Fashoda Crisis, 1898 [Imperial & Global
Forum]. H-Empire. 05-04-2017. https://networks.h-net.org/node/5293/discussions/178490/blog-arguing-about-empire-dreyfus-affir-and-fashoda-crisis-1898
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Martin Thomas and Richard Toye
“At the present moment it is impossible to open a newspaper
without finding an account of war, disturbance, the fear of war,
diplomatic changes achieved or in prospect, in every quarter of the
world,” noted an advertisement in The Times on May 20, 1898.
“Under these circumstances it is absolutely essential for anyone
who desires to follow the course of events to possess a thoroughly
good atlas.” One of the selling points of the atlas in question – that
published by The Times itself – was that it would allow its owner to
follow “most minute details of the campaign on the Atbara,
Fashoda, Uganda, the Italian-Abyssinian conflict &c.” The name
Atbara would already have been quite familiar to readers, as the
British had recently had a battle triumph there as part of the
ongoing reconquest of the Sudan. [continue reading at the
Imperial & Global Forum]
Citation: Marc-William Palen. BLOG: Arguing about Empire: The Dreyfus Affair and the Fashoda Crisis, 1898 [Imperial & Global
Forum]. H-Empire. 05-04-2017. https://networks.h-net.org/node/5293/discussions/178490/blog-arguing-about-empire-dreyfus-affir-and-fashoda-crisis-1898
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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