A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since
the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest definition it has also been part of a process of persuasion at the
heart of human communication. Stone monuments, coins, broadsheets, paintings and pamphlets, posters, radio, film,
television, computers and satellite communications - propaganda has had access to ever more complex and versatile
media.
This third edition has been revised and expanded to include a new preface, new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, information
age conflict in the post-Cold War era, and the world after the terrorist attacks of September 11. It also offers
a new epilogue and a comprehensive bibliographical essay.
The extraordinary range of this book, as well as the original and cohesive analysis it offers, make it an ideal
text for all international courses covering media and communications studies, cultural history, military history
and politics. It will also prove fascinating and accessible to the general reader.
Table of Contents
Pt. 1 Propaganda in the Ancient World
1. In the Beginning
2. Ancient Greece
3. The Glory that was Rome
Pt. 2 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
Pt. 3 Propaganda in the Age of Gunpowder and Printing
9. The Gutenberg Galaxy
10. Renaissance Warfare
11. The Reformation and the War of Religious Ideas
12. Tudor Propaganda
13. The Thirty Years War (1618-48)
14. The English Civil War (1642-6)
15. Louis XIV (1661-1715)
Pt. 4 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
Pt. 5 Propaganda in the Age of Total War and Cold War
20. War and 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
Pt. 6 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 11 September 2001
28. Epilogue
