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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"propoganda"”.
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Hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities
… Medici (Grand-)Dukes harnessed hydraulics for propoganda aims, whilst municipal authorities in Amsterdam and Augsburg fought (sometimes literally) with their neighbours over borders marked by water. The overarching ambition of early modern hydraulic philosophers, to exert control over water, …
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Information and French Support for Jacobite Ireland, 1689-1691
Although conventional Irish historiography has viewed French support for the Jacobite war effort in Ireland in the period 1689-1691 largely in terms of military assistance, a small number of scholars have taken a more original view. Their works considered the interaction between the two groups by …
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
This thesis describes and analyses how the Richmond press operated as a propaganda machine during the final year of the Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of …
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Central Sacrifice and the Sacrificial Other: A Thematic Comparison of Anti-Judaic and Anti-Semitic Artwork Emerging in Germany
<p>This study finds solace in image(s) more so than in written text(s) and the religious understanding of anti-Judaic and anti-Semitic distinction, rather than a historian's perspective. By utilizing both a religious and artistic lens, the images <em>become</em> the text from which the scholar(s) …