Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass- and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which can be interpreted in a number of different ways. What are the characteristic features of propaganda, and how can it be defined? This book traces the development of techniques of 'opinion management' from World War I to the war in Afghanistan. It reveals how state leaders and spin-doctors operating at the behest of the state, sought to shape popular attitudes - at home and overseas - endeavouring to harness new media with the objective of winning hearts and minds. In doing so, it provides compelling evidence of how the study and practice of propaganda today is shaped by its history.
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List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements

Introduction:
‘Opening Pandora’s Box’. Propaganda and Persuasion in the Information Age
David Welch

The Great War
1. Propaganda, Memory and Identity: the battle of the Falkland Islands, December1914
Mark Connelly

2. Images of the Hun. The Portrayal of the German Enemy in British Propaganda in World War One
David Welch

Interwar Period and the Second World War
3. The British at War. George Arliss the Superstar as Propagandist
Jeffrey Richards

4. Institutional and ideological rivalry between the MOI Films Division and British Council over the presentation of Britain during WW2
James Chapman

5. Today Germany Tomorrow the World. Nazi Propaganda and Total War, 1943-45
David Welch

Cold War and Post Cold War
6. The Tragedy of American Public Diplomacy, 1989-1999: The Last Decade of the United States Information Agency Reconsidered
Nick Cull

7. Radio Free Asia and China’s Harmonious Society
Gary Rawnsley

8. NATO’s Information Warfare
Edward Spiers

Strategic Communications
9. Strategic Communications and the Combatant Commander
Jeffrey B. Jones, Daniel T. Kuehl, Daniel Burgess, Russell Rochte

10. British Military Doctrine and Strategy and the Importance of Propaganda
Kate Utting

11. Bridging the Firewall? Information Operations in US Army Doctrine in the Iraq War 2003-2005.
Stephen Badsey

Contemporary Modes of Propaganda and the War on Terrorism
12. (Mis)Communication Wars: Terrorism, Counterterrorism and the Media
Cristina Archetti

13. WikiLeaks and Cybersecurity: New Modes of Propaganda
David Culbert

14. ‘Telling it like it is’; Contemporary War, Propaganda and the State
Piers Robinson

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Index

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784533571
Publisert
2015-06-19
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
300 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

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Biografisk notat

David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War & Society at the University of Kent.