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Heroes of Empire
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95 b
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During the decades of empire (1870 - 1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among "savage" people for their nations greater good. Edward Berenson argues that these five men transformed the imperial steeplechase of those years into a powerful "heroic moment." He breaks new ground by linking the eras "new imperialism" to its "new journalism" - the penny press - which furnished the public with larger-than-life figures who then embodied each nations imperial hopes and anxieties.
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