Sources with the tag 'colonies'

Skirmish of the colonial protective force in German Southwest Africa (mounted infantry of the protection force)

The picture shows German officers and a native soldier of the Schutztruppe in German Southwest Africa, modern-day Namibia. The force is apparently defending a fortification. The officers and the…

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Postcard; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, Colonialism, colonies, Germany, Imperial identity, imperial strategy, mobilisation, Mobility, painting, postcard

India under British Rule

This poem was written by the Irish poet Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817–1882). It was published in the first issue of a journal which had been published in Urdu under the title (achwat/achuwwat)…

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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonial intellectual, Colonialism, colonies, imperial strategy, India, Ireland, Language, Ottoman Empire, Poem, revolution, Urdu

The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of the Tanks, screened in the Dutch East Indies

Newspapers advertisements from Dutch colonial newspapers about the official British war documentary The Battle of Ancre and the Advancement of the Tanks (1917).

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Themes: Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: colonies, film propaganda, Netherlands, pro-British

Advocatus diaboli

Anti-British pamphlet, reprinted in the Dutch East Indies by German propagandists.

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Imperial Strategy
Tags: anti-British, anti-colonialism, colonies, German propaganda

Exploitation of Films in Holland and Dutch Colonies

Front page of consular correspondence on the distribution of British film propaganda in the Netherlands and its colonies.

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Themes: Religion; Race; Propaganda; Neutrality; Imperial Strategy; Film
Tags: colonies, film propaganda, Netherlands, pro-British

Algeria – Zouave on sentry duty

The postcard depicts a Zouave soldier in full uniform, resting on his rifle and gazing into the distance. The soldier’s facial expression conveys confidence, reliability, and strength, assuring the…

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Themes: Race; Postcard; Photograph; Imperial Strategy
Tags: Algeria, Colonial soldiers, Colonial Troops, colonies, France, imperial strategy, mobilisation, postcard