Timothy Larsen
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199287871
- eISBN:
- 9780191713422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287871.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
John Bagnall Bebbington, in addition to writing and lecturing in favour of Secularism, was also a patron of freethinking endeavours. He was the chairman of the Temple Secular Society and the editor ...
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John Bagnall Bebbington, in addition to writing and lecturing in favour of Secularism, was also a patron of freethinking endeavours. He was the chairman of the Temple Secular Society and the editor of the Propagandist. He was particularly influenced by the thought of David Hume. He gave the reasons for his reconversion in Why I Was An Atheist and Why I Am Now A Christian.Less
John Bagnall Bebbington, in addition to writing and lecturing in favour of Secularism, was also a patron of freethinking endeavours. He was the chairman of the Temple Secular Society and the editor of the Propagandist. He was particularly influenced by the thought of David Hume. He gave the reasons for his reconversion in Why I Was An Atheist and Why I Am Now A Christian.
Martin Ceadel
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199571161
- eISBN:
- 9780191721762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199571161.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines Angell as an unofficial propagandist first for Britain's cause in the Second World War and then for the west's cause in the Cold War. Moving to the United States in July 1940, ...
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This chapter examines Angell as an unofficial propagandist first for Britain's cause in the Second World War and then for the west's cause in the Cold War. Moving to the United States in July 1940, he produced a best-selling statement of allied war aims in early 1943, and lambasted ‘the Communist-cum-atomic pestilence’ from 1945 onwards. His return to Britain in 1951 coincided with the appearance of a successful autobiography; and seven years later he produced another book, though he made little progress with the educational testament on which he toiled to the end. Anxious about his legacy, he was gratified by increasing historical interest in his career and by the purchase of his books and papers by an American college. He remained active and independent until a few months before his death aged almost 95.Less
This chapter examines Angell as an unofficial propagandist first for Britain's cause in the Second World War and then for the west's cause in the Cold War. Moving to the United States in July 1940, he produced a best-selling statement of allied war aims in early 1943, and lambasted ‘the Communist-cum-atomic pestilence’ from 1945 onwards. His return to Britain in 1951 coincided with the appearance of a successful autobiography; and seven years later he produced another book, though he made little progress with the educational testament on which he toiled to the end. Anxious about his legacy, he was gratified by increasing historical interest in his career and by the purchase of his books and papers by an American college. He remained active and independent until a few months before his death aged almost 95.
Kristen Renwick Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151373
- eISBN:
- 9781400840366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151373.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of ...
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This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of working-class origins, unlike Tony and Beatrix, who were Dutch bourgeoisie. But unlike Beatrix or Tony, Fritz joined the Nazi Party, wrote propaganda for the Nazi cause, and married the daughter of a German Nazi. When he was interviewed in 1992, Fritz indicated he was appalled at what he later learned about Nazi treatment of Jews but that he still believed in many of the goals of the National Socialist movement and felt that Hitler had betrayed the movement. Fritz is thus classified as a disillusioned Nazi supporter who retains his faith in much of National Socialism, and this chapter is presented as illustrative of the psychology of those who once supported the Nazi regime but who were disillusioned after the war.Less
This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of working-class origins, unlike Tony and Beatrix, who were Dutch bourgeoisie. But unlike Beatrix or Tony, Fritz joined the Nazi Party, wrote propaganda for the Nazi cause, and married the daughter of a German Nazi. When he was interviewed in 1992, Fritz indicated he was appalled at what he later learned about Nazi treatment of Jews but that he still believed in many of the goals of the National Socialist movement and felt that Hitler had betrayed the movement. Fritz is thus classified as a disillusioned Nazi supporter who retains his faith in much of National Socialism, and this chapter is presented as illustrative of the psychology of those who once supported the Nazi regime but who were disillusioned after the war.
DAVID LAVEN
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198205746
- eISBN:
- 9780191717147
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205746.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
One of the chief criticisms of Austrian rule voiced by Risorgimento propagandists and echoed by subsequent historians is that it was fiscally exploitative of Venetia. This chapter questions the ...
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One of the chief criticisms of Austrian rule voiced by Risorgimento propagandists and echoed by subsequent historians is that it was fiscally exploitative of Venetia. This chapter questions the extent to which the Austrians set out to impose heavy tax burdens on the region. While not investigating all aspects of fiscal policy in detail, it provides a brief survey of the attitudes of the Habsburg bureaucracy in Venetia, and a detailed case study of the operation of the widely-resented poll tax.Less
One of the chief criticisms of Austrian rule voiced by Risorgimento propagandists and echoed by subsequent historians is that it was fiscally exploitative of Venetia. This chapter questions the extent to which the Austrians set out to impose heavy tax burdens on the region. While not investigating all aspects of fiscal policy in detail, it provides a brief survey of the attitudes of the Habsburg bureaucracy in Venetia, and a detailed case study of the operation of the widely-resented poll tax.
Paul Turner
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122395
- eISBN:
- 9780191671401
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122395.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
‘Have not many sciences such as Astronomy or Geology a side of feeling which is poetry?’ So asked Benjamin Jowett in 1858, and in 1889 Alfred Tennyson reported that those two ‘terrible Muses’ had ...
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‘Have not many sciences such as Astronomy or Geology a side of feeling which is poetry?’ So asked Benjamin Jowett in 1858, and in 1889 Alfred Tennyson reported that those two ‘terrible Muses’ had taken over Parnassus. Victorian scientists have several claims to a place in literary history, quite apart from their influence on literary authors. Some were poets in Jowett’s sense, reacting with awe and wonder to natural phenomena. Some were romantic individualists, whose delight in their own discoveries made them effective propagandists, or satirists of all theories that contradicted theirs. Some were lucid exponents of unfamiliar concepts, or popularizers of work done by more original researchers. Some brought science into general literature, by discussing the wider implications, religious, social, or simply human, of scientific progress.Less
‘Have not many sciences such as Astronomy or Geology a side of feeling which is poetry?’ So asked Benjamin Jowett in 1858, and in 1889 Alfred Tennyson reported that those two ‘terrible Muses’ had taken over Parnassus. Victorian scientists have several claims to a place in literary history, quite apart from their influence on literary authors. Some were poets in Jowett’s sense, reacting with awe and wonder to natural phenomena. Some were romantic individualists, whose delight in their own discoveries made them effective propagandists, or satirists of all theories that contradicted theirs. Some were lucid exponents of unfamiliar concepts, or popularizers of work done by more original researchers. Some brought science into general literature, by discussing the wider implications, religious, social, or simply human, of scientific progress.
Abigail Williams
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199255207
- eISBN:
- 9780191719837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199255207.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter returns to the wider connections between literary and political culture in the period. It shows that far from being the penniless hacks described in contemporary Tory satire, many Whig ...
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This chapter returns to the wider connections between literary and political culture in the period. It shows that far from being the penniless hacks described in contemporary Tory satire, many Whig poets were the beneficiaries of a sophisticated system of patronage. An examination of the nature of this patronage reveals the economic and political networks behind Whig verse, and demonstrates the important ideological commitment to the systematic promotion of a Whig literary culture. The intention behind the extensive support of Whig poetry in this period was not just to secure the services of political propagandists, but to support a distinctively Whiggish cultural arena. The new Whig elite would become the guardians of a revitalized artistic culture, whose grandeur would reflect their authority and largesse, and the modern writer would play a vital part in the remodelling of cultural, political, and social spheres in the early 18th century.Less
This chapter returns to the wider connections between literary and political culture in the period. It shows that far from being the penniless hacks described in contemporary Tory satire, many Whig poets were the beneficiaries of a sophisticated system of patronage. An examination of the nature of this patronage reveals the economic and political networks behind Whig verse, and demonstrates the important ideological commitment to the systematic promotion of a Whig literary culture. The intention behind the extensive support of Whig poetry in this period was not just to secure the services of political propagandists, but to support a distinctively Whiggish cultural arena. The new Whig elite would become the guardians of a revitalized artistic culture, whose grandeur would reflect their authority and largesse, and the modern writer would play a vital part in the remodelling of cultural, political, and social spheres in the early 18th century.
Alexandra Walsham
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208877
- eISBN:
- 9780191678172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208877.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, History of Religion
This chapter focuses on the persistent conflict between Catholics and Protestants, and the aggravated rifts and frictions in the 1620s within the established Church itself, regarding the ...
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This chapter focuses on the persistent conflict between Catholics and Protestants, and the aggravated rifts and frictions in the 1620s within the established Church itself, regarding the interpretation of God's activities, and also highlights the sectarian controversy and confessional strife that arose, prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The contrary views of Propagandists and Protestant polemicists in English history, on either side of Reformation divide concerning intervention of the Almighty, are discussed. The nourishing religious intolerance by the end of the Elizabethan period, in turn nourished by a corpus of pre-existing convictions about the interposition of God in the earthly world, is highlighted. Protestantism reinforced the idea of a ‘sacramental’ and ‘moralized’ universe,' by ascertaining the notion that supernatural forces intruded into human affairs and effecting a paradigm shift in conceptions of the relationship between the sacred and secular spheres.Less
This chapter focuses on the persistent conflict between Catholics and Protestants, and the aggravated rifts and frictions in the 1620s within the established Church itself, regarding the interpretation of God's activities, and also highlights the sectarian controversy and confessional strife that arose, prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The contrary views of Propagandists and Protestant polemicists in English history, on either side of Reformation divide concerning intervention of the Almighty, are discussed. The nourishing religious intolerance by the end of the Elizabethan period, in turn nourished by a corpus of pre-existing convictions about the interposition of God in the earthly world, is highlighted. Protestantism reinforced the idea of a ‘sacramental’ and ‘moralized’ universe,' by ascertaining the notion that supernatural forces intruded into human affairs and effecting a paradigm shift in conceptions of the relationship between the sacred and secular spheres.
Bernard Capp
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203759
- eISBN:
- 9780191675959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203759.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
By 1640, Taylor was already sixty-one years old. Before him, lay more than a decade of civil war and revolution. The upheavals turned his life upside-down. They brought his long association with the ...
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By 1640, Taylor was already sixty-one years old. Before him, lay more than a decade of civil war and revolution. The upheavals turned his life upside-down. They brought his long association with the watermen to an abrupt end. However, he quickly found a successful new career as popular political propagandist. Roughly half of his total output belongs to these last years. Right up to the outbreak of war, he stressed his respect for the parliament as well as his loyalty to the crown. In many places, he was dismayed to find lay preachers venting desperate doctrines, unwelcome reminders of the turmoil he thought to have left behind. He made his last journey in the summer of 1653 to Sussex. Three months later after his return home, Taylor died. He was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 5 December 1653.Less
By 1640, Taylor was already sixty-one years old. Before him, lay more than a decade of civil war and revolution. The upheavals turned his life upside-down. They brought his long association with the watermen to an abrupt end. However, he quickly found a successful new career as popular political propagandist. Roughly half of his total output belongs to these last years. Right up to the outbreak of war, he stressed his respect for the parliament as well as his loyalty to the crown. In many places, he was dismayed to find lay preachers venting desperate doctrines, unwelcome reminders of the turmoil he thought to have left behind. He made his last journey in the summer of 1653 to Sussex. Three months later after his return home, Taylor died. He was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 5 December 1653.
R. R. Davies
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208785
- eISBN:
- 9780191678141
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208785.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
Wales was a patchwork of lordships, royal and seignorial. Such fragmentation created its own problems. The power of the lord extended no further than the boundary of his lordship; the inhabitants of ...
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Wales was a patchwork of lordships, royal and seignorial. Such fragmentation created its own problems. The power of the lord extended no further than the boundary of his lordship; the inhabitants of contiguous lordships were regarded, and indeed designated, as ‘aliens’ who lay beyond the reach of his protection and punishment. Under such circumstances abuses flourished readily: men fled from one lordship to another to seek sanctuary; others removed their goods and animals to nearby lordships, thereby placing them beyond the reach of their own lord's power of distraint. It is little wonder that late medieval Wales became a byword, especially among Tudor propagandists, for disorder and the disastrous consequences of the absence of a uniform and centralized judicial authority. Indeed, the absence of such an authority prompted the lords of medieval Wales themselves to evolve mechanisms for dealing with the judicial and governmental fragmentation of the country.Less
Wales was a patchwork of lordships, royal and seignorial. Such fragmentation created its own problems. The power of the lord extended no further than the boundary of his lordship; the inhabitants of contiguous lordships were regarded, and indeed designated, as ‘aliens’ who lay beyond the reach of his protection and punishment. Under such circumstances abuses flourished readily: men fled from one lordship to another to seek sanctuary; others removed their goods and animals to nearby lordships, thereby placing them beyond the reach of their own lord's power of distraint. It is little wonder that late medieval Wales became a byword, especially among Tudor propagandists, for disorder and the disastrous consequences of the absence of a uniform and centralized judicial authority. Indeed, the absence of such an authority prompted the lords of medieval Wales themselves to evolve mechanisms for dealing with the judicial and governmental fragmentation of the country.
Michael Stenton
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208433
- eISBN:
- 9780191678004
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208433.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Political History
This chapter discusses the issues in foreign broadcasting and their impacts on domestic arguments. It explains that the Prime Minister tried to establish a rule that the Belgians and the other ...
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This chapter discusses the issues in foreign broadcasting and their impacts on domestic arguments. It explains that the Prime Minister tried to establish a rule that the Belgians and the other governments should on the whole determine the propaganda to their own countries. The chapter discusses that the Belgians exposed the basis of the Ministry's unwillingness to accommodate them. The chapter notes that the propagandists usually wanted to reshape exiled governments. But even when PWE relearnt the impertinence of the MOI, the diplomats remained more placid and patient. It explains that the advantage of Norway was that Norwegian broadcasts were established by professionals.Less
This chapter discusses the issues in foreign broadcasting and their impacts on domestic arguments. It explains that the Prime Minister tried to establish a rule that the Belgians and the other governments should on the whole determine the propaganda to their own countries. The chapter discusses that the Belgians exposed the basis of the Ministry's unwillingness to accommodate them. The chapter notes that the propagandists usually wanted to reshape exiled governments. But even when PWE relearnt the impertinence of the MOI, the diplomats remained more placid and patient. It explains that the advantage of Norway was that Norwegian broadcasts were established by professionals.
Christopher Hill
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206682
- eISBN:
- 9780191677274
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206682.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Ideas
A successful underground movement is likely to leave few traces. However, seventeenth-century propagandists were aware of continuities. John Cleveland spoke of ‘Presbyter Wyclif’ and ‘Tyler's ...
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A successful underground movement is likely to leave few traces. However, seventeenth-century propagandists were aware of continuities. John Cleveland spoke of ‘Presbyter Wyclif’ and ‘Tyler's toleration’. From the other side Levellers and William Dell emphasized the politically radical element in the heretical tradition; and Quakers brought into prominence many long-standing lower-class gestures of insubordination, such as refusing to doff the hat in the presence of social superiors or before a magistrate, or using ‘thou’ instead of the more deferential ‘you’. One seventeenth-century heresy with political implications was rejection of the Calvinist doctrine that only a favoured few are predestined to salvation. Almost by definition such a theology must be that of an elite and is unlikely to be accepted by the silent majority.Less
A successful underground movement is likely to leave few traces. However, seventeenth-century propagandists were aware of continuities. John Cleveland spoke of ‘Presbyter Wyclif’ and ‘Tyler's toleration’. From the other side Levellers and William Dell emphasized the politically radical element in the heretical tradition; and Quakers brought into prominence many long-standing lower-class gestures of insubordination, such as refusing to doff the hat in the presence of social superiors or before a magistrate, or using ‘thou’ instead of the more deferential ‘you’. One seventeenth-century heresy with political implications was rejection of the Calvinist doctrine that only a favoured few are predestined to salvation. Almost by definition such a theology must be that of an elite and is unlikely to be accepted by the silent majority.
Deirdre de la Cruz
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226314884
- eISBN:
- 9780226315072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226315072.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Religion
Chapter Two opens with an apparition tale that betokens a new representational capacity of Mary, especially as she is linked to the much revered and beloved figure of Inang Bayan (Mother Country). At ...
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Chapter Two opens with an apparition tale that betokens a new representational capacity of Mary, especially as she is linked to the much revered and beloved figure of Inang Bayan (Mother Country). At a time when other ideologies of value associated with capitalist production emerged as a challenge to the economies of Imperial Christiandom, mestizo reformists wrote poetry and essays that cast their discontent with Spanish rule in an ambivalent allegory of maternal relations. Such reimaginings of the relationship between mother and child paved the way for a double translation that rendered “Filipino” (in the new national-cultural sense of the term) both the figure of the Virgin Mary and the global circulating concept of “motherland.”Less
Chapter Two opens with an apparition tale that betokens a new representational capacity of Mary, especially as she is linked to the much revered and beloved figure of Inang Bayan (Mother Country). At a time when other ideologies of value associated with capitalist production emerged as a challenge to the economies of Imperial Christiandom, mestizo reformists wrote poetry and essays that cast their discontent with Spanish rule in an ambivalent allegory of maternal relations. Such reimaginings of the relationship between mother and child paved the way for a double translation that rendered “Filipino” (in the new national-cultural sense of the term) both the figure of the Virgin Mary and the global circulating concept of “motherland.”
Hillel Cohen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520252219
- eISBN:
- 9780520933989
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520252219.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, the author of this biook uncovers here a hidden history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part ...
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Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, the author of this biook uncovers here a hidden history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully ignored until now. This book was initially published in Israel to high acclaim and intense controversy and tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab-Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters. Based on newly declassified documents and research in Zionist, Arab, and British sources, the book follows Bedouins who hosted Jewish neighbors, weapons dealers, pro-Zionist propagandists, and informers and local leaders who cooperated with the Zionists, and others to reveal an alternate history of the mandate period with repercussions extending to this day. The book illuminates the Palestinian nationalist movement, which branded these “collaborators” as traitors and persecuted them; the Zionist movement, which used them to undermine Palestinian society from within and betrayed them; and the collaborators themselves, who held an alternate view of Palestinian nationalism. This book offers a new view of history from below and raises profound questions about the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.Less
Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, the author of this biook uncovers here a hidden history central to the narrative of the Israel-Palestine conflict but for the most part willfully ignored until now. This book was initially published in Israel to high acclaim and intense controversy and tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab-Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters. Based on newly declassified documents and research in Zionist, Arab, and British sources, the book follows Bedouins who hosted Jewish neighbors, weapons dealers, pro-Zionist propagandists, and informers and local leaders who cooperated with the Zionists, and others to reveal an alternate history of the mandate period with repercussions extending to this day. The book illuminates the Palestinian nationalist movement, which branded these “collaborators” as traitors and persecuted them; the Zionist movement, which used them to undermine Palestinian society from within and betrayed them; and the collaborators themselves, who held an alternate view of Palestinian nationalism. This book offers a new view of history from below and raises profound questions about the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Jonathan Rayner
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070983
- eISBN:
- 9781781701157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070983.003.0014
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The contribution of the American film industry to the war effort can be divided chronologically between preparatory propagandist films and combat films. It was the feature films that constituted the ...
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The contribution of the American film industry to the war effort can be divided chronologically between preparatory propagandist films and combat films. It was the feature films that constituted the most visible, accessible and influential product for home and international audiences, and the ‘most potent weapon of war in Hollywood's arsenal’. The proficiency of Hollywood in the production of genre films was an advantage for the delivery of formulaic war films, which were in any case derived from pre-war generic staples. These war films represent the American film industry's most prolonged and committed engagement ‘in documenting and making American history’. John Ford's They Were Expendable bears comparison with In Which We Serve as the definitive naval war film and tribute to the US Navy. The history of US naval aviation, from its inception to the arrival of jet aircraft, is recounted through documentary footage and fictional characters in Task Force.Less
The contribution of the American film industry to the war effort can be divided chronologically between preparatory propagandist films and combat films. It was the feature films that constituted the most visible, accessible and influential product for home and international audiences, and the ‘most potent weapon of war in Hollywood's arsenal’. The proficiency of Hollywood in the production of genre films was an advantage for the delivery of formulaic war films, which were in any case derived from pre-war generic staples. These war films represent the American film industry's most prolonged and committed engagement ‘in documenting and making American history’. John Ford's They Were Expendable bears comparison with In Which We Serve as the definitive naval war film and tribute to the US Navy. The history of US naval aviation, from its inception to the arrival of jet aircraft, is recounted through documentary footage and fictional characters in Task Force.
James Alexander
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033723
- eISBN:
- 9780813038117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033723.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses Shaw the propagandist, opposing Liberalism. In order to effect the revolution they thought they wanted, the Fabians sought to overcome the scandal of Socialism; and they did ...
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This chapter discusses Shaw the propagandist, opposing Liberalism. In order to effect the revolution they thought they wanted, the Fabians sought to overcome the scandal of Socialism; and they did this by attempting to demonstrate that Socialism was compatible with both the established political order and the established conventions of economic, moral, and political thought. So what people see in Shaw's writings on behalf of the Fabian Society in this era is the claim that Socialism was some sort of Whiggish fulfillment of Liberalism rather than some sort of Jacobin revolution or Jacobite rebellion against it. This was the Fabian, conventional, argument; and in order to state it, Shaw set aside, or reined in, his more characteristic controversial style of argument.Less
This chapter discusses Shaw the propagandist, opposing Liberalism. In order to effect the revolution they thought they wanted, the Fabians sought to overcome the scandal of Socialism; and they did this by attempting to demonstrate that Socialism was compatible with both the established political order and the established conventions of economic, moral, and political thought. So what people see in Shaw's writings on behalf of the Fabian Society in this era is the claim that Socialism was some sort of Whiggish fulfillment of Liberalism rather than some sort of Jacobin revolution or Jacobite rebellion against it. This was the Fabian, conventional, argument; and in order to state it, Shaw set aside, or reined in, his more characteristic controversial style of argument.
Suparna Gooptu
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195678345
- eISBN:
- 9780199080380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195678345.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
Cornelia Sorabji's political thinking had an important bearing on her life and work. The most distinguishing aspect of her political self was her implicit faith in the British Empire. In defending ...
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Cornelia Sorabji's political thinking had an important bearing on her life and work. The most distinguishing aspect of her political self was her implicit faith in the British Empire. In defending the traditional order in India, Cornelia was influenced by another strand in the British political thinking of the mid-Victorian era, which came to represent the conservative face of liberalism. The critic of Indian nationalist politics is explored. In addition, it explains the propagandist of the Empire and Hindu orthodoxy. Generally speaking, she remained an isolated figure in India's contemporary political scenario.Less
Cornelia Sorabji's political thinking had an important bearing on her life and work. The most distinguishing aspect of her political self was her implicit faith in the British Empire. In defending the traditional order in India, Cornelia was influenced by another strand in the British political thinking of the mid-Victorian era, which came to represent the conservative face of liberalism. The critic of Indian nationalist politics is explored. In addition, it explains the propagandist of the Empire and Hindu orthodoxy. Generally speaking, she remained an isolated figure in India's contemporary political scenario.
A. W. Brian Simpson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198259497
- eISBN:
- 9780191681974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198259497.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
Support for a negotiated peace with Germany was widespread in late 1939 and early 1940; the most vocal groups campaigning for peace were the fascists, the communists, and the Peace Pledge Union ...
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Support for a negotiated peace with Germany was widespread in late 1939 and early 1940; the most vocal groups campaigning for peace were the fascists, the communists, and the Peace Pledge Union (PPU). The Communist Party of Great Britain was considerably larger than Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union (BU); in 1940 it had roughly 20,000 members. In wartime, propaganda for peace can easily be interpreted as treachery, and the PPU, like the BU, feared government action, and took steps to protect itself by going ‘underground’. In September, action against Mosley in particular was considered in the Home Office. Realistically, worries about fringe political peace groups deflected attention from many in mainstream public life who also favoured a settlement, no doubt on condition that the terms furthered their view of British interests. Sir John Anderson's views on peace negotiations are unknown, but under him the Home Office resisted pressure for more repressive action against peace propagandists and aliens. During this period, the government introduced a new Treachery Bill.Less
Support for a negotiated peace with Germany was widespread in late 1939 and early 1940; the most vocal groups campaigning for peace were the fascists, the communists, and the Peace Pledge Union (PPU). The Communist Party of Great Britain was considerably larger than Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union (BU); in 1940 it had roughly 20,000 members. In wartime, propaganda for peace can easily be interpreted as treachery, and the PPU, like the BU, feared government action, and took steps to protect itself by going ‘underground’. In September, action against Mosley in particular was considered in the Home Office. Realistically, worries about fringe political peace groups deflected attention from many in mainstream public life who also favoured a settlement, no doubt on condition that the terms furthered their view of British interests. Sir John Anderson's views on peace negotiations are unknown, but under him the Home Office resisted pressure for more repressive action against peace propagandists and aliens. During this period, the government introduced a new Treachery Bill.
Evonne Levy
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233577
- eISBN:
- 9780520928633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233577.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
One of the most striking aspects of the literature on propaganda is that the “propagandist” is an anonymous figure. With few exceptions, the propagandist remains a hidden character. Ideology, or the ...
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One of the most striking aspects of the literature on propaganda is that the “propagandist” is an anonymous figure. With few exceptions, the propagandist remains a hidden character. Ideology, or the institution that embraces and enforces that ideology, is the apparent author of propaganda. As such, propaganda as a “work” is inimical to a Kantian notion of art, dependent as the latter is on the authorship of free individuals. The inimicability of corporate authorship to the very notion of art has long stood at the center of debate about the Jesuit Style and was extended to the Catholic Baroque. The most pointed and influential articulation of this thesis was the centerpiece of Benedetto Croce's work on the Baroque, which was widely influential for generations of intellectuals, including art historians. This chapter focuses on the Jesuit corporate culture of architecture and looks at the role of the Jesuits in the design of the Chapel of St. Ignatius.Less
One of the most striking aspects of the literature on propaganda is that the “propagandist” is an anonymous figure. With few exceptions, the propagandist remains a hidden character. Ideology, or the institution that embraces and enforces that ideology, is the apparent author of propaganda. As such, propaganda as a “work” is inimical to a Kantian notion of art, dependent as the latter is on the authorship of free individuals. The inimicability of corporate authorship to the very notion of art has long stood at the center of debate about the Jesuit Style and was extended to the Catholic Baroque. The most pointed and influential articulation of this thesis was the centerpiece of Benedetto Croce's work on the Baroque, which was widely influential for generations of intellectuals, including art historians. This chapter focuses on the Jesuit corporate culture of architecture and looks at the role of the Jesuits in the design of the Chapel of St. Ignatius.
Lee V. Chambers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618173
- eISBN:
- 9781469618197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618173.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter situates the Westons within the abolition movement which gave meaning and structure to their lives and to which they contributed as innovative fund-raisers, organizational leaders, ...
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This chapter situates the Westons within the abolition movement which gave meaning and structure to their lives and to which they contributed as innovative fund-raisers, organizational leaders, propagandists, and petition bearers. They helped organize female antislavery in Roxbury and New Bedford, Massachusetts. They encouraged individuals from different counties to organize local campaigns and provided them petition forms, and bundled the signatures for presentation to Congress. Maria, Caroline, and Anne were teachers or students in Boston when its black and white communities first embraced antislavery activism. The Westons considered enslavement as not only a physical but also a mental process that affected anyone who could not exercise his or her own will for lack of self-mastery, whether due to drink, greed, lust, cruelty, or laziness.Less
This chapter situates the Westons within the abolition movement which gave meaning and structure to their lives and to which they contributed as innovative fund-raisers, organizational leaders, propagandists, and petition bearers. They helped organize female antislavery in Roxbury and New Bedford, Massachusetts. They encouraged individuals from different counties to organize local campaigns and provided them petition forms, and bundled the signatures for presentation to Congress. Maria, Caroline, and Anne were teachers or students in Boston when its black and white communities first embraced antislavery activism. The Westons considered enslavement as not only a physical but also a mental process that affected anyone who could not exercise his or her own will for lack of self-mastery, whether due to drink, greed, lust, cruelty, or laziness.
Alexander B. Rossino
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774730
- eISBN:
- 9781800340732
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774730.003.0025
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter evaluates anti-jewish violence in the Białystok district during the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa. By employing agitators to whip up anti-Jewish sentiment to the point of ...
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This chapter evaluates anti-jewish violence in the Białystok district during the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa. By employing agitators to whip up anti-Jewish sentiment to the point of explosion, German propagandists were able to depict the massacres among the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian civilian populations in the regions adjacent to East Prussia and the General Government as spontaneous outbursts of popular violence. Citing outbursts of ‘spontaneous’ violence as evidence that Jews were exploiting and terrorizing the non-Jewish population, the SS was then able to justify its own murderous attacks on Jewish communities. This dynamic of German agitation, Polish ‘pogrom’, and SS killing action was integral to the anti-Jewish policy implemented by the SS in the Białystok district and elsewhere in eastern Poland during the first eight weeks of Operation Barbarossa. The elimination of Jews in regions of Lithuania and eastern Poland along the frontier of East Prussia and the General Government was also central to the progressive radicalization of SS anti-Jewish policy in the summer of 1941 that ultimately resulted in genocide.Less
This chapter evaluates anti-jewish violence in the Białystok district during the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa. By employing agitators to whip up anti-Jewish sentiment to the point of explosion, German propagandists were able to depict the massacres among the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian civilian populations in the regions adjacent to East Prussia and the General Government as spontaneous outbursts of popular violence. Citing outbursts of ‘spontaneous’ violence as evidence that Jews were exploiting and terrorizing the non-Jewish population, the SS was then able to justify its own murderous attacks on Jewish communities. This dynamic of German agitation, Polish ‘pogrom’, and SS killing action was integral to the anti-Jewish policy implemented by the SS in the Białystok district and elsewhere in eastern Poland during the first eight weeks of Operation Barbarossa. The elimination of Jews in regions of Lithuania and eastern Poland along the frontier of East Prussia and the General Government was also central to the progressive radicalization of SS anti-Jewish policy in the summer of 1941 that ultimately resulted in genocide.
