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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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'[It] explores the images of soldiers and of warfare prevalent in British newspapers before the First World War. It is a sobering account of a society blind to the chaotic waste and suffering of military conflict, which is rendered more poignant by current events, and by Glenn R. Wilkinson's observation that today we too possess a woefully unrealistic image of warfare...How did this blindness come about? Wilkinson is too sophisticated to regard it as forced upon Edwardian society, rejecting notions of propaganda, and observing that commercial mass-circulation newspapers cannot achieve such results without the willing consent of readers...This monograph - conceived in the aftermath of the Gulf War, and completed in the shadow of the September 11 attacks - suggests instead that the Edwardians gazed too long at war and considered it too little. They watched the images of war brought to them by the media, but did little to prevent its advance, until it was so deeply ingrained in their culture that it could no longer be either questioned or challenged. In this way, Wilkinson concludes bleakly, we are no different from our Edwardian ancestors.' - Nicholas Hiley, Times Literary Supplement
'Wilkinson is able to shed considerable light on how the British viewed war during the generation before they were required to support and make sense of the Great War...Wilkinson's nuanced descriptions of numerous papers deserve high praise, as does his labour-intensive methodology and engaging style. His arguments, moreover, add a valuable window into Edwardian cultural history...this is a significant work of cultural history that does much to explain the disillusionment of those soldiers who found the reality of the Great War very different from the images on which they had been raised.' - Mark Hampton, Wesleyan College, Twentieth Century British History
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Book Title: Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers, 1899-1914
Authors: Glenn R Wilkinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598379
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-71743-1Published: 13 December 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59837-9Published: 13 December 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 185
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Media Studies, History of Military, Modern History