This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the British National War Aims Committee during the First World War, providing detailed discussion of the establishment, activities and reception of the British domestic propaganda organisation, together with a careful and ext…
The story of propaganda and patriotism in First World War Britain too often focuses on the clichés of Kitchener, 'over by Christmas' and the deaths of patriotic young volunteers at the Somme and elsewhere. A common assumption is that familiar forms of patriotism did not survive …
A detailed study of the NWAC's activities, propaganda and reception. It demonstrates the significant role played by the NWAC in British society after July 1917, illuminating the local network of agents and committees which conducted its operations and the party political motivat…
"Un tema que demanda mayor atención en la historia contemporánea de México se refiere al concepto de nación y patria pensado desde el mundo católico. Tanto jerarquía y clero como intelectuales y militantes laicos han construido proyectos alternativos de nación frente al proceso …
"In this book Professor Bayly considers the ideological and social antecedents of India's nationalist movements - all-India as well as regional - which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century." "This book, by a major historian of modern India, is indispensable for all who a…
Argues that Russian nationalism presents a serious alternative to declining Soviet ideology and that the USSR may revert to authoritarian isolationism. Rejects the distinction made by U.S. Sovietologists between "good" Orthodox nationalists and "bad" atheist "National Bolsheviks…