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For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front
Celia M. Kingsbury
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Description for For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front
Hardback. Offers a study of the propaganda that targeted women and children during World War I. Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Num Pages: 326 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 556.
World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear about the “Hun,” who was often depicted threatening American families in their homes, while additional campaigns encouraged Americans and their allies to support the war effort. With most men actively involved in warfare, women and children became a special focus—and a tool—of social manipulation during the war. For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food agencies targeted ... Read more
World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear about the “Hun,” who was often depicted threatening American families in their homes, while additional campaigns encouraged Americans and their allies to support the war effort. With most men actively involved in warfare, women and children became a special focus—and a tool—of social manipulation during the war. For Home and Country examines the propaganda that targeted noncombatants on the home front in the United States and Europe during World War I. Cookbooks, popular magazines, romance novels, and government food agencies targeted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Series
Studies in War, Society, and the Military
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803224742
SKU
V9780803224742
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About Celia M. Kingsbury
Celia Malone Kingsbury is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. She is the author of The Peculiar Sanity of War: Hysteria in the Literature of World War I.
Reviews for For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front
""Kingsbury writes with verve and spirit, extending the theory and impact of propaganda along new avenues of research, with interesting sociological and psychological analyses.""—B. Adler, CHOICE|""This is a valuable addition to the fields of twentieth-century history, communications history, and gender studies.""—Greg Barnhisel, Journal of American History |""This will be important reading for scholars of World War One in America, and ... Read more