The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration by David Spurr

The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration

David Spurr

213 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging informative slow-paced
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The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survi...

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