Media and the british empire / edited by Chandrika Kaul

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Introductory Survey /Chandrika Kaul -- 2 'To Enlighten South Africa': The Creation of a Free Press at the Cape in the Eariy Nineteenth Century /John M. MacKenzie -- 3 'The thinking is done in London': South Africa's English Language Press and Imperialism /John Lambert -- 4 'The Old Pals' Protection Society'? The Colonial Office and the British Press on the Eve of Decolonisation /Joanna Lewis and Philip Murphy -- 5 The Media and the Exile of Seretse Khama: The Bangwato vs. the British in Bechuanaland, 1948-56 /Susan Williams -- 6 Ernest Jones' Mutiny: The People's Paper, English Popular Politics and the Indian Rebellion 1857-58 /Tim Pratt -- 7 Writing to the Defence of Empire: Winston Churchill's Press Campaign against Constitutional Reform in India, 1929-1935 /Ian St John -- 8 India, the Imperial Press Conferences and the Empire Press Union: The Diplomacy of News in the Politics of Empire, 1909-1946 /Chandrika Kaul -- 9 'Business as Usual'? British Newsreel Coverage of Indian Independence and Partition, 1947-1948 /Philip Woods -- 10 Purity, Obscenity and the Making of an Imperial Censorship System /Deana Heath -- 11 Peripheral Politics? Antipodean Interventions in Imperial News and Cable Communication (1870-1912) /Denis Cryle -- 12 A 'Sense of Common Citizenship'? Mrs Potts of Reefton, New Zealand, Communicates with the Empire /Ross Harvey -- 13 'That some must suffer for the greater good': The Post Courier and the 1969 Bougainville Crisis /Philip Cass -- 14 The Influence of the British Empire through the Development of Communications in Canada: French Radio Broadcasting during the Second World War /Alain Canuel -- 15 Echoes of Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Penang's 'Indigenous' English Press /Su Lin Lewis