Contents

pp v-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction: British Colonial Periodicals in Context

pp 1-34

Part I - Creating and Contesting the Colonial Public Sphere

pp 35-36

1 - Authorship and Collective Self-Fashioning in Pre-Confederation English Canada

pp 37-50

2 - Early Colonial Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Canada: The Literary Garland in Context

pp 51-65

3 - The Afro-Caribbean Press and the Politics of Place in Jamaica and Barbados: The Watchman and Jamaica Free Press and The Liberal

pp 66-80

4 - Mofussil versus Metropolis, Subalterns versus Seniors: The Rise and Demise of The Meerut Universal Magazine

pp 81-96

5 - Writing the ‘Wooden World’: Periodicals and Settler Environmental Knowledge in Colonial New Zealand

pp 97-111

6 - British Missionary Magazines at Home and Abroad: Southern Africa as Topic and Southern Africans as Readership

pp 112-126

7 - The Sydney Bulletin and the Settler Colonial Subject

pp 127-138

8 - Periodicals and Australian Federation

pp 139-153

9 - The South African News and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902

pp 154-167

10 - The Weekly West Africa: Commerce, Empire and Decolonisation

pp 168-182

Part II - Women and Colonial Periodicals

pp 183-184

11 - Transnational Reprinting and the Colonial Women’s Magazine: The Montreal Museum, 1832–4

pp 185-200

12 - The Birth of the Australian Women’s Magazine: The New Idea, 1902–11

pp 201-212

13 - Women’s Writing and Reporting on Women in the Ghanaian and Nigerian Press, c. 1880–1930s

pp 213-227

14 - Indian Women’s Pre-Independence Periodicals in English: The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Stri-Dharma and the Indian New Woman

pp 228-241

15 - Marriage Hygiene and the Internationalisation of Eugenical Sexology in the 1930s

pp 242-252

Part III - Language and Colonial Periodicals

pp 253-254

16 - Making Māori Citizens in Colonial New Zealand: The Role of Government niupepa

pp 255-271

17 - Language and the Making of the Colonial Modern: Periodicals from Late Nineteenth-Century Kerala, India

pp 272-284

18 - Simple Letters? British and Pacific Literacies in the Victorian Missionary Periodical

pp 285-299

19 - Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897–1909

pp 300-316

20 - Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa: Mambo Leo and Habari

pp 317-329

21 - Print Networks and Linguistic Interaction in the Early Yoruba Press

pp 330-342

22 - Colonial Entanglements: Black South African Periodicals and the Colonial Printsphere, 1920s–30s

pp 343-358