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Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain - The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale (Paperback)
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Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain - The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale (Paperback)
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The story of propaganda and patriotism in First World War Britain
too often focuses on the cliches of Kitchener, 'over by Christmas'
and the deaths of patriotic young volunteers at the Somme and
elsewhere. A common assumption is that familiar forms of patriotism
did not survive the war. However, the activities of the National
War Aims Committee in 1917-18 suggest that propaganda and
patriotism remained vigorous in Britain in the last years of the
war. The NWAC, a semi-official Parliamentary organisation
responsible for propaganda to counteract civilian war-weariness,
produced masses of propaganda material aimed at re-stimulating
civilian patriotism and yet remains largely unknown and rarely
discussed. This book provides the first detailed study of the
NWAC's activities, propaganda and reception. It demonstrates the
significant role played by the NWAC in British society after July
1917, illuminating the local network of agents and committees which
conducted its operations and the party political motivations behind
these. At the core of the book is a comprehensive analysis of the
Committee's propaganda. NWAC propaganda contained an underlying
patriotic narrative which re-presented many familiar pre-war
patriotic themes in ways that sought to encompass the experiences
of civilians worn down by years of total war. By interpreting
propaganda through the purposes it served, rather than the quantity
of discussion of particular aspects, the book rejects common and
reductive interpretations which depict propaganda as being mainly
about the vilification of enemies. Through this analysis, the book
makes a wider plea for deeper attention to the purposes behind
patriotic language.
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