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Propaganda: political rhetoric and systems of beliefs, edited with Tim Thornton, Sutton Publishing, 1999, ISBN: 0-7509-2028-9

CONTENTS

B. Taithe & T. Thornton

Propaganda a misnomer of rhetoric and persuasion?    1-26

Part One: State Building and Propaganda

S. Gaunt

Visual propaganda in England in the later middle ages.    27-40

T. Thornton

Propaganda, political communication and the problem of English responses to the introduction of printing.    41-60

K. Currey

Themes of power and identity in the court festivals of ducal Lorraine, 1563-1624.   61-78

Part Two: The Age of Revolutions: From Dynasties to Ideologies

S. Murdoch

The Search for northern allies: Stuart and Cromwellian propagandists and protagonists in Scandinavia, 1649-60.    79-96

L. Kontler

Superstition, enthusiasm and propagandism: Burke and Gentz on the nature of the French Revolution.    97-114

M. Rowe

Forging 'New Frenchmen': State propaganda in the Rhineland, 1794-1814.    115-30

G. Watkins

Selling Bonapartism or simply selling copies?  The Napoleonic legend and popular Almanacs.    131-50

Part Three:  Gendering and embodying propaganda

M. F. Cross

Flora Tristan's socialist propaganda in provincial France, 1843-4: the relationship between propaganda, identity and political rhetoric in Flora Tristan's campaign for a workers' union.    151-66

K. Hunt & J. Hannam

Propagandising as socialist women: the case of the women's columns in British socialist newspapers, 1884-1914.    167-82

R. Davidson

VD propaganda, sexual hygiene and the state in interwar Scotland.     183-202

Part Four: War and Propaganda

B. Taithe

Rhetoric, propaganda and memory: framing the Franco-Prussian war.    203-22.

T. Bowman

The Irish recruiting and anti-recruiting campaigns, 1914-1918.    223-38

M. Jolly

Between ourselves: the letter as propaganda.    239-64

Part Five: Interwar and Ideology

P.J. Beck

Projecting an image of a great nation on the world screen through Football: British cultural propaganda between the wars.    265-84

G. Barnfield

The novel as propaganda: revising the debate.    285-306

Part Six: The Age of Communication and Persuasion

N.J. Cull

Projecting Jackie:  Kennedy administration film propaganda overseas in Leo Seltzer's Invitation to India, Invitation to Pakistan and Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey (1962).    307-26.

P. Taylor

Third wave info-propaganda: psychological operations in the post-cold war era.  327-43

B. Taithe & T. Thornton

Bibliographical essay.    343-9

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