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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Introduction: British Colonial Periodicals in Context 1
6. Part I Creating and Contesting the Colonial Public Sphere
7. 1. Authorship and Collective Self-Fashioning in Pre-Confederation English Canada 35
8. 2. Early Colonial Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Canada: The Literary Garland in Context 51
9. 3. The Afro-Caribbean Press and the Politics of Place in Jamaica and Barbados: The Watchman and Jamaica Free Press and The Liberal 66
10. 4. Mofussil versus Metropolis, Subalterns versus Seniors: The Rise and Demise of The Meerut Universal Magazine 81
11. 5. Writing the ‘Wooden World’: Periodicals and Settler Environmental Knowledge in Colonial New Zealand 97
12. 6. British Missionary Magazines at Home and Abroad: Southern Africa as Topic and Southern Africans as Readership 112
13. 7. The Sydney Bulletin and the Settler Colonial Subject 127
14. 8. Periodicals and Australian Federation 139
15. 9. The South African News and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 154
16. 10. The Weekly West Africa: Commerce, Empire and Decolonisation 168
17. Part II Women and Colonial Periodicals
18. 11. Transnational Reprinting and the Colonial Women’s Magazine: The Montreal Museum, 1832–4 183
19. 12. The Birth of the Australian Women’s Magazine: The New Idea, 1902–11 201
20. 13. Women’s Writing and Reporting on Women in the Ghanaian and Nigerian Press, c. 1880–1930s 213
21. 14. Indian Women’s Pre-Independence Periodicals in English: The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Stri-Dharma and the Indian New Woman 228
22. 15. Marriage Hygiene and the Internationalisation of Eugenical Sexology in the 1930s 242
23. Part III Language and Colonial Periodicals
24. 16. Making Māori Citizens in Colonial New Zealand: The Role of Government niupepa 253
25. 17. Language and the Making of the Colonial Modern: Periodicals from Late Nineteenth-Century Kerala, India 272
26. 18. Simple Letters? British and Pacific Literacies in the Victorian Missionary Periodical 285
27. 19. Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897–1909 300
28. 20. Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa: Mambo Leo and Habari 317
29. 21. Print Networks and Linguistic Interaction in the Early Yoruba Press 330
30. 22. Colonial Entanglements: Black South African Periodicals and the Colonial Printsphere, 1920s–30s 343
31. Part IV Trans-Colonial Connections in Colonial Periodicals
32. 23. Samuel Revans and Company: Colonial Commercial Trade Newspapers in the Age of Responsible Government 359
33. 24. Colonial Trade Identity and Labour Information Exchange in the International Typographical Trade Press, 1840–1910 375
34. 25. The Anglo-Zulu War in the Friend of India: Mediation, Meaning and Authority 390
35. 26. British Anarchism and the Colonial Question: The Case of Freedom, 1918–62 404
36. 27. The Atlantic Charter in British Colonial Periodicals 418
37. 28. Citation and Solidarity: Reporting the 1955 Asian-African Conference in African Newspapers and Periodicals 432
38. 29. Non-Alignment and Maoist China: Eastern Horizon in the Era of Decolonisation, 1960–81 446
39. Part V Anti-Colonialism in the Colonial and Postcolonial Public Sphere
40. 30. For Illustrative Purposes: Nana Sahib, Jotee Prasad and Representation in British and Anglo-Indian Newspapers 461
41. 31. The Indian Newspaper Reports of British India: ‘A Kind of Periodical Press’ 477
42. 32. The Anti-Colonial Periodical between Public and Counterpublic: The Beacon and Public Opinion in the Interwar Years 493
43. 33. ‘Not a Newspaper in the Ordinary Sense of the Term’: The Geopolitics of the Newspaper/Magazine Divide in the Nigerian Comet 505
44. 34. Africa in Jamaica: W. A. Domingo, George Padmore and Public Opinion 519
45. 35. Citizenship, Responsibility and Literary Culture in the University Periodical in Eastern Africa: Spaces of Social Production in Busara and its Networks 531
46. Notes on Contributors 542
47. Index 550