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Media and the End of Empire - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 253. $85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780520375932); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780520375949); $34.95, e-book (ISBN: 9780520976283).

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Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire By Caroline Ritter. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 253. $85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780520375932); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780520375949); $34.95, e-book (ISBN: 9780520976283).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2022

Grace A. Musila
Grace A. Musila*
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Mediaculturediplomacydecolonizationpopular culture
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The Journal of African History , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , July 2022 , pp. 248 - 250
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References

1 Some titles on British mobilization of cultural diplomacy: Davis, C., Creating Postcolonial Literature: African Writers and British Publishers (New York, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Potter, S. J., Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World (Oxford, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Burton, A. and Hofmeyr, I. (eds.), Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons (Durham, NC, 2006)Google Scholar.

2 Apart from Bailkin, J., The Afterlife of Empire (Berkeley, 2012)Google Scholar, Hall, I., Dilemmas of Decline: British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945-1975 (Berkeley, 2012)Google Scholar, and Connell, K., Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain (Berkeley, 2019)Google Scholar, all of which are part of a University of California, Berkeley series in British studies, see also Buettner, E., Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society and Culture (Cambridge, UK, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Doyle, L., Inter-Imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor and the Literary Arts of Alliance (Durham, NC, 2020)Google Scholar.