Comic Empires

Richard Scully is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Armidale, AustraliaAndrekos Varnava is Professor in Imperial and Military History at the Flinders University of South Australia and Honorary Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester

• 1 Introduction: The importance of cartoons caricature and satirical art in imperial contexts, Richard Scully & Andrekos VarnavaPART ONE: High Imperialism and Colonialism 2 Courting the Colonies: Linley Sambourne, Punch, and Imperial Allegory, Robert Dingley & Richard Scully3 ‘Master Jonathan” in Cuba: A Case Study in Colonial Bildungskarikatur, Albert D. Pionke & Frederick Whiting 4 ‘The International Siamese Twins’: The Iconography of Anglo-American Inter-Imperialism, Stephen Tufnell5 ‘Every Dog (No Distinction of Color) Has His Day’: Thomas Nast and the Colonization of the American West, Fiona HalloranPART TWO: The Critique of Empire and the Context of Decolonization –6 The Making of Harmony and War, from New Year Pictures to Propaganda Cartoons during China’s Second Sino-Japanese War, Shaoqian Zhang7 David Low and India, David Lockwood8 Between imagined and ‘real’: Sarikhan’s al-Masri Effendi: cartoons in the first half of the 1930s, Keren Zdafee9 The Iconography of Decolonization in the Cartoons of the Suez Crisis, 1956, Stefanie Wichhart10 Punch and the Cyprus Emergency, 1955-9, Andrekos Varnava & Casey RaesidePART THREE: Ambiguities of Empire -11 Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference: Punch and the Armenian Massacres of 1894-6, Leslie Rogne Schumacher12 Ambiguities in the fight waged by the socialist satirical review Der Wahre Jacob against militarism and imperialism, Jean-Claude Gardes13 The ‘Confounded Socialists’ and the ‘Commonwealth Co-operative Society’: Cartoons and British Imperialism during the Attlee Labour Government, Charlotte Riley14 Australian cartoonists at the end of Empire: no more ‘Australia for the White Man’, David Olds & Robert PhiddianIndex

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