Justifying War

Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age

  • David Welch
  • Jo Fox
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modern Age

    1. Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and The Modern Age
      Jo Fox, David Welch
      Pages 1-20

  3. Empire, War and The Modern Age: Imperialism and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 21-21
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    2. Justifying the South African War: Boer Propaganda, 1899–1902
      Frans-Johan Pretorius
      Pages 23-45
    3. Justifying ‘New Imperialism’: The Making of Colonial Heroes, 1857–1902
      Berny Sèbe
      Pages 46-67

  4. The First World War: Conflict and Aftermath

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 69-69
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    2. War Aims and the ‘Big Ideas’ of 1914
      David Welch
      Pages 71-94
    3. ‘Why We Are At War’: Justifying War in Britain, 1914
      Catriona Pennell
      Pages 95-108
    4. Advertising and the Public in Britain during the First World War
      James Aulich
      Pages 109-128
    5. Justifying Chemical Warfare: The Origins and Ethics of Britain’s Chemical Warfare Programme, 1915–1939
      Ulf Schmidt
      Pages 129-158
    6. Britain’s ‘Last Crusade’: From War Propaganda to War Commemoration, c. 1914–1930
      Stefan Goebel
      Pages 159-176

  5. The Second World War: Justifying Global Conflict

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 177-177
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    2. Saving Civilization: British Public Opinion and the Coming of War in 1939
      Richard Overy
      Pages 179-199
    3. ‘There will be no war’: The Daily Express and the Approach of War, 1938–39
      Sian Nicholas
      Pages 200-217
    4. Fighting for Freedom: The Second World War and a Century of American War Propaganda
      Susan A. Brewer
      Pages 218-235
    5. From War Talk to Rights Talk: War Aims and Human Rights in the Second World War
      Jay Winter
      Pages 236-248

  6. Cold War: Justifying Ideologies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 249-249
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    2. ‘The Great Movement to Resist America and Assist Korea’: How Beijing Sold the Korean War
      Gary D. Rawnsley
      Pages 251-269
    3. Aesthetic Enemies: The ‘Two Cultures’ Theory at the Outset of the Cold War
      Oliver Johnson
      Pages 270-287
    4. Justifying Vietnam: The United States Information Agency’s Vietnam Campaign for International Audiences
      Nicholas J. Cull
      Pages 288-310

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Britain Cold War crusades empire First World War Just War Korean War law liberty media World War I World War II

Editors and affiliations

  • David Welch
    • 1
  • Jo Fox
    • 2
  1. 1.University of KentUK
  2. 2.Durham UniversityUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230393295
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-31941-1
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-39329-5
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