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Book SynopsisWorld War I and Propaganda offers a new look at a familiar subject. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the traditional view of propaganda as top-down manipulation is no longer plausible. Drawing from a variety of sources, scholars examine the complex negotiations involved in propaganda within the British Empire, in occupied territories, in neutral nations, and how war should be conducted. Propaganda was tailored to meet local circumstances and integrated into a larger narrative in which the war was not always the most important issue. Issues centering on local politics, national identity, preservation of tradition, or hopes of a brighter future all played a role in different forms of propaganda. Contributors are Christopher Barthel, Donata Blobaum, Robert Blobaum, Mourad Djebabla, Christopher Fischer, Andrew T. Jarboe, Elli Lemonidou, David Monger, Javier Pounce,Catriona Pennell, Anne Samson, Richard Smith, Kenneth Andrew Steuer, María Inés Tato, and Lisa Todd.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Propaganda and Negotiating Imperial Identity 1. Transcending the nation: domestic propaganda and supranational patriotism in Britain, 1917-18 David Monger 2. Presenting the War in Ireland, 1914-1918 Catriona Pennell 3. “Fight the Huns with Food”: Mobilizing Canadian Civilians for the Food War Effort during the Great War, 1914-1918 Mourad Djebabla 4. Propaganda, imperial subjecthood and national identity in Jamaica during the First World War Richard Smith 5. South Africa and the First World War Anne Samson Section II: Propaganda and the Proper Conduct of War 6. The Hun and the Home: Gender, Sexuality and Propaganda in First World War Europe Lisa M. Todd 7. "German Propaganda and Prisoners-of-War during World War I" Kenneth Steuer 8. Soldiers of Empire: “Colonial Troops” in the Imperial Metropole and Imperial Propaganda, 1914-1918 Andrew Jarboe Section III: Propaganda and Negotiating Occupation 9. Of Occupied Territories and Lost Provinces: German and Entente Propaganda in the West during World War I Christopher Fischer 10. The Cultivation of Deutschtum in Occupied Lithuania during the First World War Christopher Barthel 11. A Different Kind of Home Front: War, Gender and Propaganda in Warsaw, 1914-1918 Robert Blobaum and Donata Blobaum Section IV: Propaganda and Negotiating with Neutral Nations 12. Propaganda and Mobilizations in Greece during the First World War Elli Lemonidou 13. Propaganda and Politics: Germany and Spanish Opinion in World War I Javier Ponce Marrero 14. Luring Neutrals. Allied and German Propaganda during the First World War María Inés Tato Bibliography Index
