David Welch | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Historian |
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Alma mater | London School of Economics |
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Main interests | Political propaganda |
David Welch is an academic historian specialising in the study of twentieth-century propaganda. He is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War at the University of Kent. He is the editor of Routledge's Sources in History series and has also written many articles for History Today .
David Welch attained his doctorate at the London School of Economics. After several other appointments which he undertook,he became the Professor of Modern History under the University of Kent from 1992 onwards. [1]
The Jutes were one of the Germanic tribes who settled in Great Britain after the departure of the Romans. According to Bede,they were one of the three most powerful Germanic nations,along with the Angles and the Saxons:
Those who came over were of the three most powerful nations of Germany—Saxons,Angles,and Jutes. From the Jutes are descended the people of Kent,and of the Isle of Wight,and those also in the province of the West Saxons who are to this day called Jutes,seated opposite to the Isle of Wight.
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda,which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception,or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.
Julius Streicher was a member of the Nazi Party,the Gauleiter of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag,the national legislature. He was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer,which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine. The publishing firm was financially very successful and made Streicher a multi-millionaire.
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work,including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.
Sir Richard John Evans is a British historian of 19th- and 20th-century Europe with a focus on Germany. He is the author of eighteen books,including his three-volume The Third Reich Trilogy (2003–2008). Evans was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge from 2008 until his retirement in 2014,and President of Cambridge's Wolfson College from 2010 to 2017. He has been Provost of Gresham College in London since 2014. Evans was appointed Knight Bachelor for services to scholarship in the 2012 Birthday Honours.
The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power,and for the implementation of Nazi policies.
Mark Connelly is a professor and Head of the School of History,at the University of Kent in Canterbury,where he is both a military historian,and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History. Connelly specialises in the 19th Century and First World War.
Richard Sakwa is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent,a senior research fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow,and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. He has written books about Russian,Central and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics.
Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and professor in the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He was the founding director of this program and ran it from 2005 to 2019.
Dover Grammar School for Boys (DGSB) is a selective secondary school located in Dover,United Kingdom,whose origins can be traced back to the Education Act 1902 (the 'Balfour Act'). Originally founded as the Dover County School for Boys and Girls with locations behind the Dover Town Hall and on Priory Hill,the co-educational arrangements were early on prohibited by the Kent Education Committee. Dover Grammar School for Boys now occupies a prominent position overlooking the town of Dover on Astor Avenue. Its sister school is located in Frith Road and known as the Dover Grammar School for Girls (DGSG).
Jeffrey C. Herf is an American historian of modern Europe,particularly modern Germany. He is Distinguished University Professor of modern European at the University of Maryland,College Park.
The Jewish Enemy:Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust is a 2006 book by University of Maryland professor Jeffrey Herf,in which the author postulates that the Nazi government maintained its hold on the German people by controlling the press and claiming that Germans were already being attacked by an international Jewish conspiracy. Herf offers in the book a thorough study of the propaganda material disseminated by the National Socialist regime.
This list contains a selection of books on World War I,using APA style citations.
John Woodland "Jack" Welch is a scholar of law and religion. Welch is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently teaches at the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS) at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo,Utah,where he is the Robert K. Thomas University Professor of Law. He is notable for his contributions to LDS (Mormon) scholarship,including his discovery of the ancient literary form chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.
Joanne Clare Fox,is a British historian specialising in the history of film and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe.
Steven Casey is a professor of international history at the London School of Economics. He is an expert on 20th-century American history and foreign policy.
Atrocity propaganda is the spreading of information about the crimes committed by an enemy,which can be factual,but often includes or features deliberate fabrications or exaggerations. This can involve photographs,videos,illustrations,interviews,and other forms of information presentation or reporting.
Karl Ritter was a German film producer and director responsible for many Nazi propaganda films. He had previously been one of the first German military pilots. He spent most of his later life in Argentina.
Das dumme Gänslein(The Silly Goose) is one in a trio of German animated short films produced in 1944 by Hans Fischerkoesen,who was the chief animator and author. It is a tale of a female goose consumed by adventure and urban glamour in her countryside life,who has to be saved from a cunning fox by her friends and family. The overt moral of the cartoon is to avoid an extravagant and adventurous life due to its possible unexpected consequences,but rather to lead a ‘normal’(German) family life. Though this "There's no place like home" theme was a commonplace of 1930s and '40s animation,in this cartoon there is special emphasis,typical of Nazi propaganda,on the Völkisch ideology of conformity and conventionality,portraying individualism and sexual freedom as inherently both alien and dangerous. The cartoon suggests that divergence from traditional German life could be dire,even possibly lethal,in line with National Socialist characterizations of opponents of the regime as asocial,disloyal,and self-destructive. The film also hints at anti-Semitism through the character of the cunning fox.
Tibor Frank was a Hungarian historian who was professor of history at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He was director of its School of English and American Studies. From 2013 he was corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA),as of 2019 he was a full member.