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List of contributors
Foreword or series editor introduction
Introduction: perspectives on communication and the study of the First World War
JOHN GRIFFITHS
1 Writing a war of words: negotiating trench warfare in Andrew Clark’s ‘English Words in War-Time’
LYNDA MUGGLESTONE
2 British discourse, representations and conceptualisations of the Armenian genocide during the First World War
PETER MORGAN
3 ‘Spreading fields of victory’?: the reporting of Gallipoli, Jutland and the Somme in The War Illustrated
JONATHAN RAYNER
4 Fake news or an education in war? Communicating war aims to the British public in its early phases: The Oxford Pamphlets 1914–1915
JOHN GRIFFITHS
5 Desperately seeking the centre: critiques of U.S. propaganda posters during a ‘highbrow’ versus ‘lowbrow’ age
HARLEN MAKEMSON
6 The future of Alsace: the French case to the Americans
CHRISTOPHER FISCHER
7 Women’s war: engaging Canadian housewives in the food economy in 1914–1918
MOURAD DJEBABLA
8 ‘Continuing the mission’: the First World War and the roots of Red Scare violence, 1919–1921
MATTHEW KOVAC
9 International propaganda in Spain during the First World War: state of the art and new contributions
MARTA GARCÍA CABRERA
10 Great expectations: the latency of the First World War in Republican Portugal, 1914–1916
JOSÉ MIGUEL SARDICA
11 The role of the Dundee press and public propaganda in shaping public opinion and home front support for the war effort in Scotland, 1914–1918
WILLIAM KENEFICK
12 War-time and post-war medical communication: the role of the U.S. Army Medical Library
JEFFREY S. REZNICK AND KENNETH M. KOYLE
Index
Biography
John Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand. He is author of Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities 1880-1939 (2014); and co-editor with Andrew Brown of The Citizen: Past and Present (2017). He is one of the Managing Editors of the journal Britain and the World.
