Heroic Imperialists in Africa: The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870–1939 by Berny Sèbe
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Overview: This book is one of the (too) few attempts at comparing French and British late 19th- and early 20th-century imperialisms. The relative scarcity of relevant comparative studies of modern imperialisms is understandable. Such an approach requires both proficiency in two separate national historiographies and knowledge of two very different sets of archival records. Berny Sèbe was able to overcome these obstacles in his detailed study of the development of the imperial hero from the 1870s to the late 1930s without falling into the trap of generalization or mere juxtaposition. This fruitful cultural history of colonialism focuses in particular on the connection between the advent of High Imperialism and the rise of mass culture in the last decades of the 19th century. This work—the culmination of a years-long research project supervised by John G. Darwin—was therefore logically published in ‘Studies in Imperialism’ (Manchester UP). John Mackenzie was the general editor for that series for many years. Sèbe’s examination of colonial heroes owes a great deal to his well-known works on imperial culture.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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