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Propaganda and Neutrality

Global Case Studies in the 20th Century

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Propaganda and Neutrality

Global Case Studies in the 20th Century

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This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, Propaganda and Neutrality explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey, Portuguese Macau, Brazil, South Africa, Laos, Yugoslavia, Egypt, India, Malta, and Sweden.

The individual chapters analyse the methods and channels of propaganda utilised in neutral countries, including rumours, newspapers, cartoons, films, pamphlets and magazines as well as radio broadcasts, official reports, diplomatic movements, cultural campaigns and soft power. They look to understand how these methods and channels have been deployed and how effective they have been in changing or reinforcing opinions and outcomes.

Finally the book highlights the interaction between the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. It considers whether neutrality is a form of propaganda in itself, whether it is possible to be truly neutral in any propaganda battle and how the different forms of neutrality, including projected strict neutrality, non-belligerency and non-alignment, have been utilised by neutrals and belligerents to achieve propaganda goals in the last 120 years.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations
Foreword – Professor Jo Fox (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK)
Editors' Introduction
Part I – Propaganda and Neutrality in the lead up to, and during, the First World War
1. Mobilising Neutrality in the International Arena before and during the First World War Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
2. American Neutrality and Belligerent Propaganda 1914-17: Contested Histories Stephen Badsey (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
3. First World War Propaganda in Neutral Argentina María Inés Tato (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
4. 'Killing Neutrality': The propaganda battle and the Greek 'National Schism' (1915-18) Georgios Giannakopoulos (King's College, London, UK) and Zinovia Lialiouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
5. Propaganda and Pistolerismo: Barcelona as an alternative battleground in the First World War Florian Grafl (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
6. Anglo-Portuguese Diplomacy and the Pro-Allied Propaganda during the Great War Miguel Brandão (University of Porto, Portugal)
Part II – Propaganda and Neutrality in the Second World War
7. Propaganda and Censorship in Neutral Eire during 'the Emergency' Karen Garner (SUNY Empire State College, USA)
8. Censorship and Soft Power in Neutral Eire 1933-1945 Lior Tibet (Hebrew University, Israel)
9. 'An Irregular Intellectual': Elizabeth Wiskemann in Berne, Switzerland, 1940-45 Guy Woodward (Durham University, UK)
10. Propaganda and Vichy France's 'Neutrality' 1940-1944 Richard Carswell (Independent Scholar, UK)
11. Turkey's Neutrality in the Shadow of Nazi Propaganda Yasemin Türkkan Tunali and Yasemin Doganer (both Hacettepe University, Turkey)
12. Beyond Neutrality: Successes and failures of Italian cultural propaganda in Portugal during the Second World War, 1939-45 Simone Muraca (University of Padua, Italy)
13. Great Britain's Contingency Plans in Spain during the Second World War Marta García Cabrera (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
14. Censorship and Private Shows: Mapping the circulation of British film propaganda in Sweden during the Second World War Emil Stjernholm (Lund University, Sweden)
15. Neutrality and (Anti-)Imperialism: Multinational propaganda competition in neutral Macau, 1937-1945 Helena F.S. Lopes (University of Bristol, UK)
16. Influencing Readers in Neutral and Occupied Countries during the Second World War João Franzolin (Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho University, UNESP, Brazil)
Part III – Propaganda and Neutrality in the Cold War and Beyond
17. 'Swiss Counter-Intelligence is as Full of Holes as its Cheese': Neutrality and Maoist propaganda in 1960s Switzerland Cyril Cordoba (Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany)
18. Laos and Neutrality: Unsung heroes in a tragic effort for neutrality P. Mike Rattanasengchanh (Midwestern State University, USA)
19. British Cultural Diplomacy in the leading Non-Aligned Movement Countries: The British Council in Yugoslavia, Egypt and India during the Cold War Edward Corse (University of Kent, UK)
20. Malta: The Mediterranean interlocutor Hillary Briffa (King's College, London, UK)
21. Anti-Apartheid Propaganda and the Counter-Neutrality Paradigm: The US and UK cases compared Nicholas J. Cull (University of Southern California, USA)
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 19 Oct 2023
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 320
ISBN 9781350325555
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 25 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Edward Corse

Edward Corse is Honorary Research Fellow at the Ce…

Anthology Editor

Marta García Cabrera

Marta García Cabrera is Historical Researcher at U…

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