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presents an insightful analysis of the relationship between the British government and propaganda during the interwar years. Well researched and conceptually sound. Choice Grant's book represents the first systematic study of peacetime publicity arrangements in the interwar period. She adeptly handles the intrinsic difficulties posed by such a study through a comparative approach. History it is to Grant's credit that she has undertaken the task of combining through the activities of the various ministries to provide us with as complete a picture as we are likely to get. The International History Review XVIII:1 Grant concentrates on several basic themes to which she brings both a perceptive intelligence and the outcome of thorough research...This volume is an important addition to the literature on British propaganda in the twentieth century. Albion This volume is an important addition to the literature on Britsh propaganda in the twentieth century. Grant has done for British domestic propaganda and publicity between the wars what Philip M. Taylor did for external propaganda in The Projection of Britain (1982), with the difference that her volume is illustrated. Robert Cole, Utah State University, Albion Over the course of the monograph, Grant provides much detail and insight into the workings of government publicity in the interwar period ... Scholars of twentieth-century Britain will find its detail useful. Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University, Canadian Journal of History, XXXI December 1996 As a whole, the book is essentially a chapter in the hisotry of the civil service, rather than in the history of propaganda. Propaganda and the Role of the State touches on important and interesting themes and will provide a useful foundation from which to explore such issues. Clare Griffiths, Wadham College, Oxford, Parliamentary History, 15, 2 (1996) well-researched monograph ... Grant's thorough and nuanced study provides a further illustration of how the governing classes in Britain resisted populist methods of mass communication. D.L. Le Mahieu, Lake Forest College, American Historical Review, June 1996 Here is further testimony to the powerful but historically still rather mysterious British conception of high standrds of public conduct, and to the strong inter-war sense of constitutional democracy as an ideology needing careful nurturing and firm defence in a hostile world. Philip Williamson, University of Durham, EHR Apr.97

Grant systematically charts how the British bureaucracy came to an understanding of the nature and role of propaganda in a modern democracy....Also presents an insightful analysis of the relationship between the British government and propaganda during the interwar years....Well researched and conceptually sound. --Choice<br> .,. Grant concentrates on several basic themes to which she brings both a perceptive intelligence and the outcome of thorough research. --Albion<br>

Here is further testimony to the powerful but historically still rather mysterious British conception of high standrds of public conduct, and to the strong inter-war sense of constitutional democracy as an ideology needing careful nurturing and firm defence in a hostile world. * Philip Williamson, University of Durham, EHR Apr.97 * well-researched monograph ... Grant's thorough and nuanced study provides a further illustration of how the governing classes in Britain resisted populist methods of mass communication. * D.L. Le Mahieu, Lake Forest College, American Historical Review, June 1996 * As a whole, the book is essentially a chapter in the hisotry of the civil service, rather than in the history of propaganda. Propaganda and the Role of the State touches on important and interesting themes and will provide a useful foundation from which to explore such issues. * Clare Griffiths, Wadham College, Oxford, Parliamentary History, 15, 2 (1996) * Over the course of the monograph, Grant provides much detail and insight into the workings of government publicity in the interwar period ... Scholars of twentieth-century Britain will find its detail useful. * Stephen Brooks, Dalhousie University, Canadian Journal of History, XXXI December 1996 * This volume is an important addition to the literature on Britsh propaganda in the twentieth century. Grant has done for British domestic propaganda and publicity between the wars what Philip M. Taylor did for external propaganda in The Projection of Britain (1982), with the difference that her volume is illustrated. * Robert Cole, Utah State University, Albion * Grant concentrates on several basic themes to which she brings both a perceptive intelligence and the outcome of thorough research.....This volume is an important addition to the literature on British propaganda in the twentieth century. * Albion * it is to Grant's credit that she has undertaken the task of combining through the activities of the various ministries to provide us with as complete a picture as we are likely to get. * The International History Review XVIII:1 * Grant's book represents the first systematic study of peacetime publicity arrangements in the interwar period. She adeptly handles the intrinsic difficulties posed by such a study through a comparative approach. * History * presents an insightful analysis of the relationship between the British government and propaganda during the interwar years. Well researched and conceptually sound. * Choice *

Grant systematically charts how the British bureaucracy came to an understanding of the nature and role of propaganda in a modern democracy....Also presents an insightful analysis of the relationship between the British government and propaganda during the interwar years....Well researched and conceptually sound. --Choice. ..Grant concentrates on several basic themes to which she brings both a perceptive intelligence and the outcome of thorough research. --Albion

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