A Call to Arms - Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (Hardcover)

The first work to provide a comparative look at how newspapers in England, France, Russia, Germany, and Austro-Hungary explained the war World War I highlighted the influence of newspapers in rousing and maintaining public support for the war effort. Discussions of the role of the press in the Great War have, to date, largely focused on atrocity stories. This book offers the first comparative analysis of how newspapers in Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary attempted to define war, its objectives, and the enemy. Presented country-by-country, expert essays examine, through the use of translated articles from the contemporary press, how newspapers of different nations defined the war for their readership and the ideals they used to justify a war and support governments that some segments of the press had opposed just a few months earlier. During the opening months of the war, government attempts to influence public opinion functioned in a largely negative fashion - for example, the censoring of military information and of criticism of government policies. There was little effort to provide a positive message to sway readers. the reasons for their nation's involvement. Partisan politics was a staple of the pre-war press; thus, newspapers could and did define the war in terms that reflected their own political ideals and agenda. Conservative, liberal, and socialist newspapers all largely supported the war (the ones that did not were shut down immediately), but they did so for different reasons and hoped for different outcomes if their side was victorious. Part of the Perspectives on the Twentieth Century series The comparative analysis of newspaper attitudes to World War I in five of the main belligerent powers Includes and analyzes translations of contemporary newspaper articles

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Perspectives on the Twentieth Century
Release date:	December 2004
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Troy Paddock
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-275-97383-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-275-97383-2
Barcode:	9780275973834

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