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Organising the Propaganda Instrument: The British Experience

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  1. John B. Black
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. The Roots of Peacetime Propaganda

    • John B. Black
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Official Information Services

    • John B. Black
    Pages 12-41

  4. The Central Office of Information

    • John B. Black
    Pages 42-49

  5. The British Council

    • John B. Black
    Pages 50-58

  6. The BBC External Services

    • John B. Black
    Pages 59-68

  7. Supervision of British Propaganda Programmes

    • John B. Black
    Pages 69-80

  8. Comparing Approaches: The United Kingdom and the United States

    • John B. Black
    Pages 81-103

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 104-116
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The systematic use of propaganda is very much a phenomenon of the 20th century. Through the years, kings, political leaders, and statesmen have often made use of what might now be called "propaganda tech­ niques" but it is only within the present century that the use of pro­ paganda has been developed as a systematic instrument of national and foreign policy. Nonetheless, since World War II propaganda has become a regular peacetime instrument of foreign policy for most states, be they large or small. While some considerable attention has been given to the propaganda organisations and activities of the United States and certain Com­ munist nations, especially the U.S.S.R., relatively little has been done on the British approach to propaganda. The present study attempts to at least partially fill that vacuum. A history of the overseas Informa­ tion Services is not undertaken and I will leave that important task to future scholars. Instead I have examined the British approach to the organisation of propaganda and the mechanics they have developed to utilize this instrument of foreign policy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Organising the Propaganda Instrument: The British Experience

  • Authors: John B. Black

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1640-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1694-4Published: 31 May 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1640-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 127

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science

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