DAVID FINKELSTEIN is Head of the Media and Communication Department at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. He is the author of An Index to Blackwood's Magazine, 1901-1980, (1995) Philip Meadows Taylor (1990) and co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities (2000). He has also published articles on book history and the nineteenth-century media in such journals as Victorian Periodicals Review and Publishing History.DOUGLAS M. PEERS is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early Nineteenth-Century India and co-editor of J.S. Mill's Encounter with India (1999). He has published articles in such journals as the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, International History Review, Medical History and Modern Asian Studies.

'This collection not only extends our understanding of the history of the press, but unlike most studies of the periodical press, which typically are contained within national boundaries, it also poses questions about international readership and the way power worked across and within the boundaries of nation and race at a particular period.' - Margaret Beetham, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sharp News 'This is one of those rare collections that is both critically sound and fun to read.' - Richard D. Fulton, Victorian Periodicals Review

• Illustrations Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements 'A Great System of Circulation': Introducing India into the Nineteenth-Century Media; D.Finkelstein & D.M.Peers Institutionalising Imperial Reform: The Indian Magazine and Late-Victorian Colonial Politics; A.Burton Issues of Race, Gender, and Nation in Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine and Queen , 1850-1900; N.Chaudhuri 'Half-Caste Bob' or Race and Caste in the late Victorian Boys' Story Paper; K.Boyd The Story of Our Lives: The Moonstone and the Indian Mutiny in All the Year Round; H.Park 'Double-dyed Traitors and Infernal Villains': Illustrated London News , Household Words , Charles Dickens and the Indian Rebellion; L.Peters Narratives of Progress and Idioms of Community: Two Urdu Periodicals of the 1870s; J.Majeed 'Strange Medley[s]': Ambiguities of Role Purpose, and Representation in Kipling's From Sea to Sea; J.McBratney Representing the Technology of the Raj in Britain's Victorian Periodical Press' A.M.Wainwright The Army in India and the Military Periodical Press, 1830-1989; T.R.Moreman Was there an Oriental Renaissance in Medicine?: The Evidence of the Nineteenth-Century Medical Press; M.Harrison 'Purple Prose and the Yellow Press: Imagined Spaces and The Military Expedition to Tirah, 1897'; G.R.Wilkinson Index