Justifying War

1. Front Matter

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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

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.

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

• University of Kent, UK

  David Welch

• Durham University, UK

  Jo Fox

JAMES AULICH Professor in the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STEPHEN BADSEY Reader in Conflict Studies, the University of Wolverhampton, UK SUSAN A. BREWER Professor of History, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA NICHOLAS J. CULL Professor of Public Diplomacy, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA JO FOX Professor of Modern History, Durham University, UK STEFAN GOEBEL Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, the University of Kent, UK PHILIP HAMMOND Professor of Media and Communications, London South Bank University, UK OLIVER JOHNSON Research Associate in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, the University of Sheffield, UK ROB JOHNSON Deputy Director of the Changing Character of War team and Lecturer in the History of War at the University of Oxford, UK PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY Journalist and author, including of The First Casualty SIAN NICHOLAS Senior Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University, UK CATRIONA PENNELL Lecturer in History, the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, UK RICHARD OVERY Professor of History, the University of Exeter, UK FRANSJOHAN PRETORIUS Professor of History at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. GARY D. RAWNSLEY Professor of International Communications at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK ULF SCHMIDT Professor of Modern History, the University of Kent, UK BERNY SÈBE Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, the University of Birmingham, UK PHIL TAYLOR was Professor of International Communications and founder member and former Director of the Institute of Communications Studies, the University of Leeds, UK DAVID WELCH Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War and Propaganda & Society, the University of Kent, UK JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA