Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modern Age....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Justifying the South African War: Boer Propaganda, 1899–1902....Pages 23-45
Justifying ‘New Imperialism’: The Making of Colonial Heroes, 1857–1902....Pages 46-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
War Aims and the ‘Big Ideas’ of 1914....Pages 71-94
‘Why We Are At War’: Justifying War in Britain, 1914....Pages 95-108
Advertising and the Public in Britain during the First World War....Pages 109-128
Justifying Chemical Warfare: The Origins and Ethics of Britain’s Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915–1939....Pages 129-158
Britain’s ‘Last Crusade’: From War Propaganda to War Commemoration, c. 1914–1930....Pages 159-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939....Pages 179-199
‘There will be no war’: The Daily Express and the Approach of War, 1938–39....Pages 200-217
Fighting for Freedom: The Second World War and a Century of American War Propaganda....Pages 218-235
From War Talk to Rights Talk: War Aims and Human Rights in the Second World War....Pages 236-248
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
‘The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea’: How Beijing Sold the Korean War....Pages 251-269
Aesthetic Enemies: The ‘Two Cultures’ Theory at the Outset of the Cold War....Pages 270-287
Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency’s Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences....Pages 288-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Humanitarian War: Justifying Western Military Intervention, 1991–2001....Pages 313-326
Cosmopolitanism and Precautionary War....Pages 327-340
Justifying the Iraq War and Managing the Media: A Comparative Historical Analysis....Pages 341-361
Losing the (Information) War on Terror....Pages 362-376
The Role of the Media in Justifying and Promoting War....Pages 377-383
Back Matter....Pages 384-397