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Introduction
Patricia Aufderheide
in Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and ...
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7. Fighting for the vote: suffragettes
Margaret Walters
in Feminism: A Very Short Introduction
The growing militancy of the women's movement is charted in ‘Fighting for the vote: suffragettes’. In 1903, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded. Less than a year later ...
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4. The making of rebel Spain
Helen Graham
in The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Why do writers on the Spanish Civil War make a sharp distinction between the political unity of the rebels under Franco and the fragmentation of the Republicans? There was more of a sense ...
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7. The uses of history
Helen Graham
in The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
History can be used as a weapon of propaganda. The post-Civil War regime manipulated a monolithic and partisan version of the war, referring to it not as a civil war but as a ‘crusade’ or ...
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2. Late colonial India
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
in Indian Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
Between 1920 and 1931 India saw its first boom in indigenous film production. Indian cinema was clearly set to take-off, but where to? Both the boom in production, as well as the kind of ...
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
Patricia Aufderheide
Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and ...
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2. Subgenres
Patricia Aufderheide
in Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
‘Subgenres’ explores the different types of documentary that developed. Public affairs documentaries typically take a problem-oriented approach, promising an authoritative, ...
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3. Mobilize and survive: the Republic at war
Helen Graham
in The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
The Republic quickly tried to mobilize domestic resources after the uprising in July 1936. International help was not forthcoming with the Non-Intervention Treaty of August 1936. ‘Mobilize ...
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4. 1915: The War Continues
Michael Howard
in The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
Had this been a ‘limited war’ in the style of the 18th century, governments might, by 1915, have declared a truce and negotiated a compromise peace. However, the war had escalated outside ...
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3. 1914: The Opening Campaigns
Michael Howard
in The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
The outbreak of war was greeted with wild enthusiasm throughout the major cities of all the belligerent powers — the result of a widespread quasi-religious significance attached to the ...
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4. Revolutionary terrorism
Charles Townshend
in Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edn)
The word ‘revolutionary’ has been applied over the last century in three social-political contexts: within existing nation-states; in external colonial situations; and in ‘internal ...
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1. Defining the Documentary
Patricia Aufderheide
in Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction
Documentaries both inform and entertain. ‘Defining the documentary’ explores how film can tell a story about real life honestly, in good faith. Viewers expect to be told things about the ...
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The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Helen Graham
The Spanish Civil War: Very Short Introduction offers an explanation of the war's origins and course, explores its impact on a personal and international scale, and provides an ...
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6. The United States Enters the War
Michael Howard
in The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
By 1917, the Russian and Austrian empires were more than ready for peace, utterly unable to provide the resources required to continue the war. However, the Western powers were not yet ...
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8. 1918: The Year of Decision
Michael Howard
in The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
1918 saw both sides in desperation. The Americans were not yet deployed into fighting formations, and the British were unlikely to be able to withstand a concerted offensive. The Germans ...
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1. The trouble with terrorism
Charles Townshend
in Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edn)
The point of terrorism is to upset and make people feel vulnerable. ‘The trouble with terrorism’ attempts to define terrorism by examining the relationship between terror and war. Should ...
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Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (3rd edn)
Charles Townshend
Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction examines the historical, ideological, and local roots of terrorist violence and explores terrorism in relation to revolutionary power, ...
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2. “Politics in Command”
Richard Curt Kraus
in The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
‘“Politics in Command”’ explores the political mechanisms of the Cultural Revolution. Theatricality played an important role, both in carefully choreographed propaganda and in unscripted ...
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
Michael Howard
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction is a concise history of the ‘Great War’, focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did. ...
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1. Europe in 1914
Michael Howard
in The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
The Great War of 1914–18 began as a local European conflict. ‘Europe in 1914’ examines the status and relationships of these key European powers prior to war, and the formation of the two ...
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