Abstract:

This paper uses international newspaper corpora from the Oceanic Exchanges digital humanities project to examine transnational perceptions of imperialism in the nineteenth century. Through the figure of Lajos Kossuth, whose publicity tour of the United States in 1852 generated support for Hungarian independence, this paper demonstrates that big-data and digital analysis tools such as topic modeling can reveal key details about how states and communities perceived European imperialism, depending on their own national circumstances. The paper shows how his journey came to be refracted through national and international political goals as well as the popular consumption of celebrity news.

摘要：

本文使用来自 Oceanic Exchanges 数字人文项目的国际报纸语料库来研究 19 世纪对帝国主义的跨国看法。通过 Lajos Kossuth 的形象，他于1852 年在美国的宣传之旅获得了对匈牙利独立的支持，本文证明了大数据和数字分析工具（如主题建模）可以揭示有关国家和社区如何看待欧洲帝国主义的关键细节，看自己的国情。这篇论文展示了他的旅程是如何通过国家和国际政治目标以及名人新闻的流行消费来折射的。