Munitions of the mind : a history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present era

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General Note:	Sub-title from cover: "History of propaganda from the ancient world to the present day."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-331) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction - Looking through a Glass Onion: Propaganda, Psychological Warfare and Persuasion -- 1. In the Beginning ... -- 2. Ancient Greece -- 3. The Glory that was Rome -- 4. The 'Dark Ages' to 1066 -- 5. The Norman Conquest -- 6. The Chivalric Code -- 7. The Crusades -- 8. The Hundred Years War -- 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) -- 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 -- 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 -- 25. 'Information Wars' since 1990 -- 26. Epilogue.