Propaganda in the English civil wars: designing emotions to divide a nation

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Heffernan, Troy. 2015. "Propaganda in the English civil wars: designing emotions to divide a nation." Broomhall, Susan and Finn, Sarah (ed.) Violence and emotions in early modern Europe. New York, United States. Routledge. pp. 173-184

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Chapter Title	Propaganda in the English civil wars: designing emotions to divide a nation
Book Chapter Category	Edited book (chapter)
ERA Publisher ID	3137
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Book Title	Violence and emotions in early modern Europe
Author	Heffernan, Troy
Editors	Broomhall, Susan and Finn, Sarah
Page Range	173-184
Series	Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Chapter Number	10
Number of Pages	12
Year	2015
Publisher	Routledge
	Taylor & Francis
Place of Publication	New York, United States
ISBN	9781138854024
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315689456
Web Address (URL)	https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138854024
Abstract	Throughout the events that led up to and included the English Civil Wars, propaganda divided the nation into royalists and parliamentarians. Propaganda used the emotional power of fear to take the seventeenth century’s melancholic state of mind and make the reasons for conflict appear necessary, while taking physical violence and transforming it from a method of restoring civil order to becoming a required tool if either side was to claim victory. This chapter explores how and why propaganda was so effective at manipulating peoples’ emotions, and the major role it played in a conflict that cost 85,000 soldiers their lives.
Keywords	propaganda; England; civil war; early modern; Charles I; Oliver Cromwell; emotions; history
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	430304. British history
Public Notes	Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions.
Byline Affiliations	Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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