Review: Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880–1917, by Andrew Offenburger

This paper studies political language in late nineteenth century partisan newspapers by (a) evaluating the degree of pragmatic force, or ideological closure in political editorial content published during the 1872 election year in three leading Iowa newspapers; and (b) linking variations in the degree of ideological closure of these texts to the institutional and social-political contexts of their production, i.e. the political role of editors and the web of relationships within which they performed their work. The degree of ideological closure is evaluated by analysing a range of rhetorical and discursive practices. The study identified variations in degree of closure both between newspapers affiliated with the same party and within a single newspaper over time. Such variations are interpreted as reflecting editors’ need to mitigate an intricate set of political interests and obligations. The analysis also brings to light the richness of partisan editorial language of this time. These finds demonstrate the complexity of the political language and discourse of Gilded Age newspapers.

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Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the US-Mexican Borderlands, 1880–1917

Hispanic American Historical Review ◽

10.1215/00182168-9366910 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 101 (4) ◽

pp. 728-729

Author(s):

Samuel Truett

Keyword(s):

Southern Africa ◽

Gilded Age ◽

The Us

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Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa: Why Namibia is not Another Zimbabwe

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700505794 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 12 (3-4) ◽

pp. 37-45

Author(s):

David F. Gordon

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

South Africa ◽

United Kingdom ◽

South African ◽

Security Council ◽

Southern Africa ◽

The United States ◽

West Germany ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The U.S

Despite continued American insistence that a negotiating impasse had not been reached, by the final months of 1982 it seemed clear that internationally-recognized independence for Namibia would not soon be achieved. While Washington claimed that negotiations between South Africa, Angola, and the Southwest African Peoples Organization (SWAPO) (with the U.S. as mediator) remain meaningful, there appears to have been a decisive move away from settlement. The latest round of negotiations, spearheaded by the United States as the leading element of the Western Contact Group (the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, and Canada), has attempted to move South African-controlled Namibia to independence on the basis of Security Council Resolution 435 of September 1978.

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Becoming Americans in Paris: The Commune as Frontier in Turn-of-the-Century Adventure Fiction

Sensational Internationalism ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411202.003.0003 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

J. Michelle Coghlan

Keyword(s):

Gilded Age ◽

Popular Fiction ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Historical Romances ◽

Adventure Fiction ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Red Flag ◽

A Site ◽

The U.S

This chapter charts the reconfiguration of the Commune’s domestic threat in American popular fiction in the 1890s. I show how America’s fin-de-siècle preoccupation with the revolution of 1871 consistently reframes Paris as a frontier of empire even as it critically reimagines it as a site where American tourists—or, more specifically, Gilded Age American men—might be said to “find” themselves. Setting Edward King’s 1895 boys’ book, Under the Red Flag, alongside G. A. Henty’s A Woman of the Commune, and two other immensely popular but virtually forgotten historical romances of the period, The Red Republic and An American in Paris, I argue that the 1890s were a particularly apt time to revisit the Commune because of the very real labor unrest plaguing the country, and more importantly because the “romance of the Commune” served to revise American conceptions of revolution at a moment when the U.S. was reimagining its role abroad and reevaluating its attitude towards empire.

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