Comic empires: Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art

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Comic empires

Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art

Edited by: Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 187 | Studies in Imperialism

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Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art.

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Varnava Andrekos :

Andrekos Varnava is Associate Professor in Modern History at Flinders University

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History Historical Periods Pre-History

Front matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
1 Introduction The importance of cartoons, caricature, and satirical art in imperial contexts Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I: High imperialism and colonialism
2 Courting the colonies Linley Sambourne, Punch, and imperial allegory Robert Dingley and Richard Scully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
3 ‘Master Jonathan’ in Cuba A case study in colonial Bildungskarikatur Albert D. Pionke and Frederick Whiting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
4 ‘The international Siamese twins’ The iconography of Anglo-American inter-imperialism Stephen Tuffnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
5 ‘“Every dog” (no distinction of color) “has his day”’ Thomas Nast and the colonisation of the American West Fiona Halloran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	134
PART II: The critique of empire and the context of decolonisation
6 The making of harmony and war, from New Year Prints to propaganda cartoons during China’s Second Sino-Japanese War Shaoqian Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
7 David Low and India David Lockwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
8 Between imagined and ‘real’ Sarukhan’s al-Masri Effendi cartoons in the first half of the 1930s Keren Zdafee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
9 The iconography of decolonisation in the cartoons of the Suez Crisis, 1956 Stefanie Wichhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	242
10 Punch and the Cyprus emergency, 1955–1959 Andrekos Varnava and Casey Raeside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
PART III: Ambiguities of empire
11 Outrage and imperialism, confusion and indifference Punch and the Armenian massacres of 1894–1896 Leslie Rogne Schumacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
12 Ambiguities in the fight waged by the socialist satirical review Der Wahre Jacob against militarism and imperialism Jean-Claude Gardes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	334
13 The ‘confounded socialists’ and the ‘Commonwealth Co-operative Society’ Cartoons and British imperialism during the Attlee Labour government Charlotte Lydia Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	362
14 Australian cartoonists at the end of empire No more ‘Australia for the White Man’ David Olds and Robert Phiddian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	426

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November 4, 2019

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9781526142955

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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526142955

eBook ISBN: 9781526142955

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Caricature; Cartoonists; Cartoons; Colonialism; Decolonization; Empire; Imperialism; Puck; Punch; Race

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