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Why Are We The Good Guys? – Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda
ISBN: 9781780993652 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology. David Cromwell digs beneath standard accounts of crucial issues such as foreign policy, climate change and the constant struggle between state-corporate power and...
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics...
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81,43 |
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British Cinema and the Cold War
ISBN: 9781845112110 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has been written about cold war Hollywood and the Soviet Union's cinematic campaign against the West. This book fills a significant gap in the international story by uncovering British cinema's contribution to cold war propaganda and its attempt to create a consensus among British audiences on cold war issues. The book includes tales of conveniently forgotten films like High Treason, directed by Roy Boulting, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; Little Red Monkey, in which the Chinese communist threat first emerged; and the fascinatingly ambiguous The Man...
Much has been written about cold war Hollywood and the Soviet Union's cinematic campaign against the West. This book fills a significant gap in the in...
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127,26 |
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Persuading John Bull: Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860-65
ISBN: 9781498501392 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Adams Knight, a Northern American based in the British capital. The newspaper s successes and failures in attempts to manipulate British public opinion during the war are compared with that of The Index, its rival Confederate propaganda weekly headquartered two doors down London s Fleet Street. Persuading John Bull provides scholars and general readers alike a far greater understanding of the...
This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and t...
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Propaganda Technique in the World War
ISBN: 9781614275060 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2013 Reprint of 1938 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Harold Lasswell (1902-1978) was a prominent scholar in the area of propaganda research. He focused on conducting both quantitative and qualitative analyses of propaganda, understanding the content of propaganda, and discovering the effect of propaganda on the mass audience. Lasswell is credited with creating the mass communication procedure of content analysis. Lasswell maintained that a content analysis should take into account the frequency with which certain symbols...
2013 Reprint of 1938 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Harold Lasswell (1902-1978) wa...
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61,15 |
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The Reluctant Combatant: Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War
ISBN: 9780761863243 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility of the national united front against Japan, the view of Soviet Russia as Japan's principal potential adversary, and the potential threat to Japanese national defense a protracted war with China would pose. This book reveals that the Communists, the National Government, local gentry, peasants, and...
The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Ja...
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169,32 |
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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
ISBN: 9781608464012 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates public opinion about what constitutes -terrorism.- Chomsky masterfully argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of the World Trade Center and the killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists happen.
Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates publ...
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California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State
ISBN: 9781938228865 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside good roads, social clubs, cultural institutions, and business commerce. The California suburban dream was the ultimate symbol of progress and modernity.
"California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State"analyzes the growth, promotion, and agricultural colonization that fed this dream during the early 1900s. Through this analysis, Paul J. P. Sandul introduces a newly identified rural-suburban type: the"agriburb,... At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside g...
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109,88 |
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Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion
ISBN: 9780691616766 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word. This book considers the purposes, mechanisms, content, and audience of royal printed propaganda in early modern France. The author first sketches the impact of the invention of printing and characterizes propaganda generally during the reign of Louis XIV. In succeeding chapters he discusses the theory and practice of censorship and the government's relationships with the recently... In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments d... |
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Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion
ISBN: 9780691643984 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word. This book considers the purposes, mechanisms, content, and audience of royal printed propaganda in early modern France. The author first sketches the impact of the invention of printing and characterizes propaganda generally during the reign of Louis XIV. In succeeding chapters he discusses the theory and practice of censorship and the government's relationships with the recently... In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments d... |
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686,98 |
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Putin's Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781442253605 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia s information war, one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main instruments of Russia s new imperialism, reminiscent of the height of the Cold War. The author describes a multifaceted strategy that makes use of diverse instruments, including mimicking Western public diplomacy...
Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia s information war, one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen a...
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425,73 |
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Putin's Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781442253612 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia s information war, one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen argues that the Kremlin s propaganda offensive is a carefully prepared strategy, implemented and tested over the last decade. Initially intended as a tool to enhance Russia s soft power, it quickly developed into one of the main instruments of Russia s new imperialism, reminiscent of the height of the Cold War. The author describes a multifaceted strategy that makes use of diverse instruments, including mimicking Western public diplomacy...
Putin's Propaganda Machine examines Russia s information war, one of the most striking features of its intervention in Ukraine. Marcel H. Van Herpen a...
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179,00 |
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Propaganda, Power and Persuasion: From World War I to Wikileaks
ISBN: 9781784533571 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Philip Taylor has written, The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again. Propaganda came of age in the Twentieth Century. The development of mass-and multi-media offered a fertile ground for propaganda while global conflict provided the impetus needed for its growth. Propaganda has however become a portmanteau word, which can be interpreted in a number of different ways. What are the characteristic...
As Philip Taylor has written, The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the info...
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116,06 |
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Damn Yankees!: Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South
ISBN: 9780807160589 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, and infidel enemy. Damn Yankees explores the proliferation of this rhetoric and demonstrates how the perpetual vilification of northerners became a weapon during the war, fostering hatred and resistance among the people of the Confederacy. Drawing from speeches, cartoons, editorials, letters, and diaries, Damn Yankees examines common themes in southern excoriation of the enemy. In sharp contrast to the presumed southern ideals of chivalry and... During the Civil War, southerners produced a vast body of writing about their northern foes, painting a picture of a money-grubbing, puritanical, a... |
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Mass-Mediated Terrorism: Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism
ISBN: 9781442247604 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media's appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers,...
With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and...
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478,95 |
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Mass-Mediated Terrorism: Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781442247611 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media's appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers,...
With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and...
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193,52 |
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The Muslim Extremist Discourse: Constructing Us Versus Them
ISBN: 9781498520379 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Muslim Extremist Discourse analyzes the discourse of militant extremists. Newspapers published by extremists play a critical role in securing and maintaining public support for militant organizations. This book provides an understanding of extremist narratives and the ways they feed the broader militant discourse.
Muslim Extremist Discourse analyzes the discourse of militant extremists. Newspapers published by extremists play a critical role in securing and main...
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425,73 |
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With a Weapon and a Grin: Postcard Images of France's Black African Colonial Troops in WWI
ISBN: 9780764352270 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In incorporating Black African soldiers on the European battleground in their war against the Germans in WWI, France needed to change the image of the African from that of savage to a loyal and courageous soldier, a non-threat to French citizenry. What emerged was the Grand Enfant, a child-like figure with a winning grin who nonetheless could be ruthless in pursuit of the Hun. Meanwhile, German propaganda persisted in portraying the African as a cannibal, being unjustly deployed by France against the civilized European. Postcards of the era were an important means of disseminating these...
In incorporating Black African soldiers on the European battleground in their war against the Germans in WWI, France needed to change the image of the...
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162,91 |
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(R)evolutionizing Political Communication through Social Media
ISBN: 9781466698796 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book offers crucial perspectives on the utilization of online social networks in political discourse and how these alterations have affected previous modes of correspondence, highlighting key issues through theoretical foundations and pertinent case studies"--
"This book offers crucial perspectives on the utilization of online social networks in political discourse and how these alterations have affected pre...
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857,03 |
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A Socio-Political Model of Lies in Russia: Putin Against the Personal
ISBN: 9780761867630 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not exclusively part of, the rule of Russia's second (and fourth) post-Soviet President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Then, it is to assess what future there is for Russia in view of Russia's peculiar 'socio-political' culture of parallel truth and untruth. Based on new research, literature and historical examination of 'untruth' in Russia, using political, social, cultural, media and public opinion analysis, this study develops and applies a new and...
This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not ex...
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343,49 |
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Quest for a Suitable Past: Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9789633861363 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day.
The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present ...
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483,79 |