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The argument of the broken pane: Suffragette consumerism and newspapers
Within the cut-throat world of newspaper advertising the newspapers of Britain's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Votes for Women and the Suffragette managed to achieve a balance that has often proved to be an impossible challenge for social movement pressânamely the maintenance of a highly political stance whilst simultaneously exploiting the market system with advertising and merchandising. When the militant papers advocated window smashing of West End stores in 1912â1913, the companies who were the target still took advertisements. Why? What was the relationship between news values, militant violence and advertising income? âDo-it-yourselfâ journalism operated within a context of ethical consumerism and promotionally orientated militancy. This resulted in newspaper connections between politics, commerce and a distinct market profile, evident in the customisation of advertising, retailer dialogue with militants and longer-term loyaltyâsymptomatic of a wider trend towards newspaper commercialism during this period
Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East
âSet against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrnaâs Ashes is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.â Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, DavisâTusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britainâs attempt to build a âNear Eastâ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to todayâs Middle East of nation-states.â Peter Mandler, University of CambridgeâTraces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably enmeshed in imperial and cultural agendas and helped to contribute to the creation of the modern Middle East.â Dane Kennedy, The George Washington UniversityâAn original and meticulously researched contribution to our understandings of British imperial, gender, and cultural history. Smyrnaâs Ashes demonstrates the long-standing influence of Middle Eastern issues on British self-identification. Tusanâs conclusions will engage scholars in a variety of fields for years to come.â Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North TexasToday the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. Smyrnaâs Ashes reevaluates how this story of the âEastern Questionâ shaped the cultural politics of geography, war, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.Michelle Tusan is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Berkeley Series in British Studies,
The Woman of No Importance
Michelle Tusan on the anxiety, apathy and confusion at Lausanne and why itâs time for European historians to take the Last Treaty seriously
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Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East
âSet against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, Smyrnaâs Ashes is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.â Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, DavisâTusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britainâs attempt to build a âNear Eastâ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to todayâs Middle East of nation-states.â Peter Mandler, University of CambridgeâTraces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably enmeshed in imperial and cultural agendas and helped to contribute to the creation of the modern Middle East.â Dane Kennedy, The George Washington UniversityâAn original and meticulously researched contribution to our understandings of British imperial, gender, and cultural history. Smyrnaâs Ashes demonstrates the long-standing influence of Middle Eastern issues on British self-identification. Tusanâs conclusions will engage scholars in a variety of fields for years to come.â Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North TexasToday the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. Smyrnaâs Ashes reevaluates how this story of the âEastern Questionâ shaped the cultural politics of geography, war, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.Michelle Tusan is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Berkeley Series in British Studies,