Propaganda
Political Rhetoric and Identity, 1300-2000

This collection of articles is based on the concepts of propaganda and political rhetoric from the 14th century to the 21st. It is divided into six thematic and chronological sections which respond to some of the major historiographical debates on these subjects.

This collection of articles is based on the concepts of propaganda and political rhetoric from the 14th century to the 21st. It is divided into six thematic and chronological sections which respond to some of the major historiographical debates on these subjects.

Propaganda - a misnomer of rhetoric and persuasion? Bertrand Taithe and Tim Thornton. Part 1 State building and propaganda: visual propaganda in England in the later Middle Ages, Sarah Gaunt
propaganda, political communication and the problem of English responses to the introduction of printing, Tim Thornton
themes of power and identity in the court festivals of ducal Lorraine, 1563-1624. Part 2 The age of revolutions - from dynasties to ideologies: the search for Northern allies - Stuart and Cromwellian propagandists and protagonists in Scandinavia, 1649-60
superstition, enthusiasm and propagandism - Burke and Gentz on the nature of the French Revolution, Laszlo Kontler
forging "new Frenchmen" - state propaganda in the Rhineland, 1794-1814
selling Bonarpartism or simply selling copies? - the Napeoleonic legend and popular almanacs, Geoff Watkins. Part 3 Gendering and embodying propaganda: Flora Tristan's socialist propaganda in provincial France, 1843-1844 - the relationship between propaganda, identity and political rhetoric in Flora Tristan's campaign for a workers' union, Maire F. Cross
propagandizing as socialist women - the case of the women's columns in British socialist newspapers, 1884-1914, Karen Hunt and June Hannam
VD propaganda, sexual hygiene and the state in interwar Scotland, Roger Davidson. Part 4 War and propaganda: rhetoric propaganda and memory - framing the Franco-Prussian War, Bertrand Taithe
the Irish recruiting and anti-recruiting campaigns, 1914-1918, Tim Bowman
between ourselves - the letter as propaganda, Margaretta Jolly. Part 5 Interwar and ideology: projectng an image of a great nation on the world screen through football - British cultural propaganda between the wars, Peter J. Beck
the novel as propaganda - revisiting the debate, Graham Barnfield. Part 6 The age of communication and persuasion: projecting Jackie - Kennedy administration film propaganda overseas in Leo Seltzer's "Invitation to India", "Invitation to Pakistan" and "Jacqueline Kennedy's Asian Journey" (1962), Nicholas J. Cull
third-wave info-propaganda - psychological operations in the post-Cold War era, Philip Taylor.