British subversive propaganda during the Second World War : Germany, national socialism and the Political Warfare Executive / / Kirk Robert Graham

• Autore: Graham Kirk Robert
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 940.5341
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: British Propagandists and the German Problem -- The View from Woburn Abbey: The Political Culture of PWE -- The Brazen Horde: British Propagandists and the Course of German History -- Germany on the Couch: The Role of Psychology and the Social Sciences in the Development of Subversive Propaganda -- No Man so Lecherous as the German: Nazi Perversion and German Masculinity in British Subversive Propaganda -- A Rebellion Against the Divinely Appointed Order: Totalitarian Theory, Secular Religions, and Religious Anti-Fascism in British Subversive Propaganda -- The Logic of Subversive Propaganda -- 2 The View from Woburn Abbey: The Political Culture of PWE -- Gentleman Amateurs and "the Other Germany" -- The Significance of Germanophobia -- Filling the Ranks, Affirming the Orthodoxy -- Conclusion -- 3 The Brazen Horde: British Propagandists and the Course of German History -- Hermann Rauschning and the Two Germanies Theory -- Robert Vansittart and Transatlantic Germanophobia -- Germanophobic Propaganda and the Limits of Vansittartist History -- German Anti-Fascists and the Value of Social History -- A New Europe -- Conclusion -- 4 Germany on the Couch: The Role of Psychology and the Social Sciences in the Development of Subversive Propaganda -- Psychological Judo -- The Push for Pure Psychology -- J.T. MacCurdy and Henry Dicks -- The German National Character and the Nazi Mind -- Conclusion -- 5 No Man so Lecherous as the German: Nazi Perversion and German Masculinity in British Subversive Propaganda -- Pornography and the German Mind -- A Gendered Pathology -- Pigdogs and Englishmen -- A New Answer to the German Question -- Conclusion. ; 6 A Rebellion Against the Divinely Appointed Order: Totalitarian Theory, Secular Religions, and Religious Anti-Fascism in British Subversive Propaganda -- Kicking Against the Pricks -- Ersatzreligion and the Origins of Totalitarian Theory -- Black Sabbath -- Towards a Catholic Donauraum -- Conclusion -- 7 The Logic of Subversive Propaganda -- A Contested Legacy -- Winning the Peace -- Anti-Semitism and the Morality of Resistance -- Sowing Dissent? -- Conclusion -- 8 Epilogue: Breaking Hearts and Minds -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: British subversive propaganda during the Second World War
• ISBN: 3-030-71664-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495233903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Britain and the world.