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Justifying war propaganda, politics and the modern age

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A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of aut...

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Other Authors: Welch, David, Fox, Jo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Subjects:
Mass media and war > History > 20th century
Just war doctrine > Case studies
Propaganda > History > 20th century
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Table of Contents:
  • Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modem Age / Jo Fox and David Welch
  • Justifying the South African War: Boer Propaganda, 1899-1902 / Frans-Johan Pretorius
  • Justifying 'New Imperialism': The Making of Colonial Heroes, 1857-1902 / Berny Sèbe
  • War Aims and the 'Big Ideas' of 1914 / David Welch
  • 'Why We Are At War': Justifying War in Britain, 1914 / Catriona Pennell
  • Advertising and the Public in Britain during the First World War / James Aulich
  • Justifying Chemical Warfare: The Origins and Ethics of Britain's Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1939 / Ulf Schmidt
  • Britain's 'Last Crusade': From War Propaganda to War Commemoration, c. 1914-1930 / Stefan Goebel
  • Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939 / Richard Overy
  • 'There will be no war': The Daily Express and the Approach of War, 1938-39 / Sian Nicholas
  • Fighting for Freedom: The Second World War and a Century of American War Propaganda / Susan A. Brewer
  • From War Talk to Rights Talk: War Aims and Human Rights in the Second World War / Jay Winter
  • 'The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea': How Beijing Sold the Korean War / Gary D. Rawnsley
  • Aesthetic Enemies: The 'Two Cultures' Theory at the Outset of the Cold War / Oliver Johnson
  • Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency's Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences / Nicholas J. Cull
  • Humanitarian War: Justifying Western Military Intervention, 1991-2001 / Stephen Badsey
  • Cosmopolitanism and Precautionary War / Philip Hammond
  • Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis / Rob Johnson
  • Losing the (Information) War on Terror / Philip M. Taylor
  • The Role of the Media in Justifying and Promoting War /Phillip Knightley

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