Justifying War Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

by Fox, Jo; Welch, David

• ISBN13: 9780230246270
• ISBN10: 0230246273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.

Author Biography

David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War at the University of Kent, UK. His main research interest is in twentieth-and twentieth-century German history, focusing on the relationship between public opinion, politics and propaganda in German society. Jo Fox is Professor of Modern History at Durham University in the UK and is a specialist in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. She has published on the cinematic cultures of Britain and Germany during the Second World War and is the author of Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema (2007).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modem Age	p. 1
Empire, War and The Modern Age: Imperialism and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century
Justifying the South African War: Boer Propaganda, 1899-1902	p. 23
Justifying 'New Imperialism': The Making of Colonial Heroes, 1857-1902	p. 46
The First World War: Conflict and Aftermath
War Aims and the 'Big Ideas' of 1914	p. 71
'Why We Are At War': Justifying War in Britain, 1914	p. 95
Advertising and the Public in Britain during the First World War	p. 109
Justifying Chemical Warfare: The Origins and Ethics of Britain's Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915-1939	p. 129
Britain's 'Last Crusade': From War Propaganda to War Commemoration, c. 1914-1930	p. 159
The Second World War: Justifying Global Conflict
Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939	p. 179
'There will be no war': The Daily Express and the Approach of War, 1938-39	p. 200
Fighting for Freedom: The Second World War and a Century of American War Propaganda	p. 218
From War Talk to Rights Talk: War Aims and Human Rights in the Second World War	p. 236
Cold War: Justifying Ideologies
'The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea': How Beijing Sold the Korean War	p. 251
Aesthetic Enemies: The 'Two Cultures' Theory at the Outset of the Cold War	p. 270
Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency's Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences	p. 288
Into the Modern Age: Justifying War in the Twenty-first Century
Humanitarian War: Justifying Western Military Intervention, 1991-2001	p. 313
Cosmopolitanism and Precautionary War	p. 327
Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis	p. 341
Losing the (Information) War on Terror	p. 362
The Role of the Media in Justifying and Promoting War	p. 377
Select Bibliography	p. 384
Index	p. 390
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