Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction Looking through a glass onion: Propaganda, psychological warfare and persuasion
Part One Propaganda in the Ancient World
1. In the beginning…
2. Ancient Greece
3. The glory that was Rome
Part Two Propaganda in the Middle Ages
4. The ‘Dark Ages’ to 1066
5. The Norman Conquest
6. The Chivalric Code
7. The Crusades
8. The Hundred Years War
Part Three Propaganda in the age of gunpowder and printing
9. The Gutenburg Galaxy
10. Renaissance warfare
11. The Reformation and the War of Religious Ideas
12. Tudor propaganda
13. The Thirty Years Way (1618–48)
14. The English Civil War (1642–6)
15. Louis XIV (1661–1715)
Part Four Propaganda in the age of revolutionary warfare
16. The Press as an agent of liberty
17. The American Revolution
18. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
19. War and public opinion in the nineteenth century
Part Five Propaganda in the age of Total War and Cold War
20. Warand the communications revolution
21. The First World War
22. The Bolshevik Revolution and the War of Ideologies (1917–39)
23. The Second World War
24. Propaganda, Cold War and the advent of the Television Age
Part six The New World Information Disorder
25. The Gulf War of 1991
26. Information age conflict in the post-Cold War era
27. The world after September 11th 2001
Bibliographical essay
Index

About the Author

Philip M. Taylor is Professor of International Communications at the University of Leeds