Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.
The book argues that the definition of a "e;fixer"e; emerges when local journalists are de-professionalized and their field expertise and connections are stripped away to produce a faceless, nameless, set of "e;eyes and ears"e; in service of the 24/7 media machine.
In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population.
Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments, incorporated her into their political repertoires, and implicated her as they sought redress for the effects of imperial expansion during her long reign.