Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press.(Book Review)

Julie F. Codell, ed. Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British Colonial Press. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2003. Pp. 328. $57.50. ISBN 0-8386-3973-9.

The twelve essays in this volume address the role of the press in forming and defining identities in Britain and several of its colonial dependencies during the Victorian era. Following her introduction Julie Codell divides the essays into two parts, "Sites of Authority: Imperial Domination and Press Intervention" and "Sites of Fracture: Resistance and Autonomy in Imperial ...

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