Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda
A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication. Stone monuments, coins, broadsheets, paintings and pamphlets, posters, radio, film, television, computers and satellite communications - throughout history, propaganda has had access to ever more complex and versatile media. \ This third edition...
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A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the heart of human communication. Stone monuments, coins, broadsheets, paintings and pamphlets, posters, radio, film, television, computers and satellite communications - throughout history, propaganda has had access to ever more complex and versatile media. This third edition has been revised and expanded to include a new preface, new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, information age conflict in the post-Cold War era, and the world after the terrorist attacks of September 11. It also offers a new epilogue and a comprehensive bibliographical essay. The extraordinary range of this book, as well as the original and cohesive analysis it offers, make it an ideal text for all international courses covering media and communications studies, cultural history, military history and politics. It will also prove fascinating and accessible to the general reader.
AcknowledgementsPreface to the New EditionIntroduction: Looking Through a Glass Onion: Propaganda, Psychological Warfare and Persuasion1Pt. 1Propaganda in the Ancient World1In the Beginning...192Ancient Greece253The Glory that was Rome35Pt. 2Propaganda in the Middle Ages4The 'Dark Ages' to 1066515The Norman Conquest626The Chivalric Code677The Crusades738The Hundred Years War81Pt. 3Propaganda in the Age of Gunpowder and Printing9The Gutenberg Galaxy8710Renaissance Warfare8911The Reformation and the War of Religious Ideas9712Tudor Propaganda10213The Thirty Years War (1618-48)10914The English Civil War (1642-6)11715Louis XIV (1661-1715)121Pt. 4Propaganda in the Age of Revolutionary Warfare16The Press as an Agent of Liberty12917The American Revolution13318The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars14519War and Public Opinion in the Nineteenth Century158Pt. 5Propaganda in the Age of Total War and Cold War20War and the Communications Revolution17321The First World War17622The Bolshevik Revolution and the War of Ideologies (1917-39)19823The Second World War20824Propaganda, Cold War and the Advent of the Television Age249Pt. 6The New World Information Disorder25The Gulf War of 199128526Information-Age Conflict in the Post-Cold War Era29827The World after 11 September 200131528Epilogue320Bibliographical Essay325Index332
