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University of Manchester
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Article title
La famine de 1866-1868 : anatomie d'une catastrophe et construction médiatique d'un événement
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle
Article number
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Volume number
41
Issue number
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First page of article
113
ISSN of journal
1777-5329
Year of publication
2010
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Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
An analysis of media representations of a series of sanitary and food supply crises as a ‘famine’ in France and the English speaking world in the 1860s. This media campaign used new methods as well as established modes of representation and developed political themes such as apostolic freedom in Algeria and new figures of compassion such as orphans of the famine. New methods went beyond the usual techniques of charitable fundraising to stress the sensational circumstances of the crises as well as the fundamental alterity of the victims. The ‘famine’ thus has an important place in the history of humanitarianism.
