Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Mich?le Martin's Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustrated periodicals published in France, Germany, England, and Canada (with references also to Italy and the United States), and argues that periodicals during this period worked to reinforce particular national identities.
Images in periodicals played an essential role in how the concept of nationalism was expressed and reproduced, usually by pitting cultures and countries against one another. These illustrated periodicals helped to shape nations...
Using the press coverage of the Franco-Prussian war as a starting point, Mich?le Martin's Images at War examines nineteenth-century illustra...
