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Stanard, Matthew G.

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Selling the tenth province: Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908--1960.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Selling the tenth province: Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908--1960./
Author:	Stanard, Matthew G.
Description:	392 p.
Notes:	Adviser: James D. Le Sueur.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	History, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3215171
ISBN:	9780542653346

Selling the tenth province: Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908--1960.
Stanard, Matthew G.

Selling the tenth province: Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908--1960. - 392 p.

Adviser: James D. Le Sueur.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2006.

This dissertation examines pro-colonial propaganda in Belgium to see what this can tell us about the nature of Belgian overseas imperialism. Examining pro-imperial propaganda helps us understand why certain states were imperial to begin with, and which persons and groups were most interested in imperial expansion and why. The dissertation focuses on several areas where imperial propaganda was produced and consumed in Belgium: international and local expositions; museums; school textbooks and education; imperial monuments; and films on the Congo.

ISBN: 9780542653346Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017555
History, African.

Selling the tenth province: Belgian colonial propaganda, 1908--1960.
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520 $a This dissertation examines pro-colonial propaganda in Belgium to see what this can tell us about the nature of Belgian overseas imperialism. Examining pro-imperial propaganda helps us understand why certain states were imperial to begin with, and which persons and groups were most interested in imperial expansion and why. The dissertation focuses on several areas where imperial propaganda was produced and consumed in Belgium: international and local expositions; museums; school textbooks and education; imperial monuments; and films on the Congo.
520 $a This dissertation furthers our knowledge in two key ways. It sheds new light on the nature of Belgian rule in Africa and colonial culture in Belgium, demonstrating that the state and colonial enthusiasts made deliberate efforts to persuade the home population as to the importance of the African empire. Fears of losing the Congo to the great powers often motivated the Belgian colonial administration. Missionary and private capital groups made less of an effort to sway public opinion, suggesting they had less of a stake in formal political rule than the Belgian state. While propaganda more often than not failed to persuade public opinion, it did shape Belgian perceptions of Africa and Africans, as well as their own history. These perceptions affected key developments such as the decision to decolonize, Belgium's dealings with the Congo after independence, and the endurance of the Belgian nation-state itself. This study suggests imperial propaganda unified Belgians around a common project and that it was not a coincidence that after the state lost the Congo in 1960 it entered a decades-long (and ongoing) period of transformation from a centralized unitary nation-state to a decentralized, federal state.
520 $a Second, this dissertation advances the literature on European imperialism by placing Belgium within the larger framework of colonial propaganda, interest groups, and European perceptions of Africa during the "New Imperialism" from 1880-1960. Comparing popularization efforts in Belgium with those in other major European powers in Africa suggests that imperial propaganda was an essential concomitant to overseas political and economic control in Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. Local participation in the promotion of the colonial idea in Belgium suggests a level of grassroots support for imperialism not usually associated with Belgians who are considered to have been "reluctant imperialists". While in Belgium, as in France and Great Britain, it appears that propaganda in favor of empire oftentimes did not work, it does seem to have transmitted to the population a glorious version of colonial and national history. Imperial enthusiasts cultivated myths of Leopold II and the "pioneer era" from 1885-1908 in order to create a colonial tradition and legitimize the overseas empire. These myths had important ramifications during the colonial and post-colonial eras for Belgians' understandings of their own history.
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