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Huth, Arno
A RADIO DIFFUSION PUISSANCE MONDIALE
This is the first in-depth study of worldwide broadcasting to reach
publication. From a neutral standpoint, the author reviews the development of
broadcasting, explores the then-current situation of administration, finance, control, and
programming, provides 250 pages of detailed data by country with maps, diagrams, photos.
program listings, etc., and concludes with a brief section on the importance of radio in
world understanding.
LC 72-4661 Paris, 1937
ISBN: 0405047495 illus. $30.95
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INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE SURVEYS,
Nos. 1-6
No. 1-Improvement of Information (1952)
No. 2-The News from Russia (1952)
No. 3-The News from the Middle East (1954)
No. 4-Government Pressures on the Press (1955)
No. 5-The Press in Authoritarian Countries (1959)
No. 6-Professional Secrecy and the Journalist (1962)
Representing the first decade of a continuing
series of worldwide press reviews, these surveys provide an excellent view of major
problems in news transmittal and dissemination. They are valuable for their basically
neutral stance, and their details of a "melting" Cold War.
LC 72-4803 Zurich, 1952-1962
ISBN: 0405047509 $42.95 Ships
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International
Press Institute
THE FLOW OF THE NEWS
A comprehensive analysis of the nature and extent of news flow among nations
which is based upon data from 177 newspapers in ten countries and forty-five wire
services.
LC 72-4691 Zurich, 1953
ISBN: 0405047517 $23.95 Ships
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Mendelssohn, Peter
JAPAN'S POLITICAL WARFARE
This book is a unique, informative, nonscientific study of the theory and
practice of wartime Japanese propaganda.
LC 72-4674 London, 1944
ISBN: 0405047584 $18.95 Ships
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Nafziger,
Ralph O., compiler
INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND THE PRESS:
Communications, Organization of News-Gathering,
International Affairs and the Foreign Press. An Annotated Bibliography
A landmark effort and invaluable resource for research today, this bibliography (an
expansion of one originally published in 1937) details materials likely to be found in
better American libraries. The volume covers the period from 1900 through 1940, and is
well annotated.
LC 72-4675 New York, 1940
ISBN: 0405047592 $17.95 Ships
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Rogerson,
Sidney
PROPAGANDA IN THE NEXT WAR
This volume, part of The Next War
series edited by famed military expert B. H. Liddle-Hart,
contains chapters on the nature of propaganda, the late 1930s position of
the major powers, and ways and means of disseminating messages; and examines countries
likely to prove allied, neutral, or against Britain.
LC 72-4678 London, 1938
ISBN: 0405047622 $17.95 Ships
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Thomson,
Charles A.H.
OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
This book is the best systematic survey of the transitional period of the late
1940s when key American communications policies were formulated and solidified.
LC 72-4681 Washington, D.C., 1948
ISBN: 0405047657 $24.95 Ships
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Terrou,
Fernand and Lucien Sorai
LEGISLATION FOR PRESS, FILM AND RADIO:
Comparative Study of the Main Types of Regulations Governing the Information Media
This is the legal companion to the Press Film Radio series included in this Arno
collection. Providing a comparison of media regulations in most countries, the volume
details constitutional provisions; fundamental principles; regulation of media
organization and finance; laws on libel, slander and censorship; and the organization,
regulation and codes of the profession (mass communicators).
LC 72-4680 Paris, 1951
ISBN: 0405047649 $29.95 Ships
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Trilobite,
Leslie Bennett
THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF ELECTRICAL
COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PACIFIC AREA
This book is a unique volume exploring the development of wireless and cable
communications in countries of the Pacific basin.
LC 72-4682 Baltimore, 1929
ISBN: 0405047665 $21.95 Ships
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Bruntz,
George G.
ALLIED PROPAGANDA AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE GERMAN
EMPIRE IN 1918
Compiled from the vast World War I archives of the Hoover Library at Stanford,
this volume is a systematic analysis of propaganda organization, content and effects in
the 1917-18 period. Stress is on British and American effort and results. A nine-page
bibliography is included.
LC 72-4658 Stanford, Calif., 1938
ISBN: 040504741X illus. $19.95
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Codding,
George Arthur, Jr.
THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION: An
Experiment in International Cooperation
This volume is a standard and definitive history of the International
Telecommunication Union from its formation in 1865. It is also a detailed analysis of ITU
operations as they stood at the middle of the 20th century.
LC 72-4663 Leiden, Netherlands, 1952
ISBN: 0405047444 $30.95 Available
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Creel,
George
HOW WE ADVERTISED AMERICA: The First Telling of
the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information that Carried the Gospel of
Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe
This volume was written by the director of' the 1917-1919 Committee on Public
Information. Twenty chapters deal with domestic activities, and fourteen with overseas
affairs, while three cover the demobilization of CPI in 1919. Appendices list the title
and the number of copies printed of all CPI publications.
LC 72-4664 New York, London, 1920
ISBN: 0405047452 illus. $35.95
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Farago, Ladislas, editor
GERMAN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
This is a greatly expanded version of the author's 1941 compilation, of
bibliographic entries on the same topic-this volume has more entries plus a lengthy essay
on the theory, organization and practice of Nazi propaganda. There is coverage of both
internal and foreign Propaganda, and details of political and military tactics and
strategy.
LC 724666 New York, 1942
ISBN: 0405047479 $26.95 Available
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Lavine,
Harold and James Wechsler
WAR PROPAGANDA AND THE UNITED STATES
A fascinating review of allied and axis propaganda in the late 1930s, this
volume explores the tactics used by the United States, Great Britain and Germany. A case
study of propaganda in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish conflict is also provided.
LC 72-4668 New Haven, Conn., 1940
ISBN: 0405047533 illus. $21.95
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Lockhart,
Sir Robert H. Bruce
COMES THE RECKONING
This book is a complete review of propaganda's role in World War II as seen by
the wartime Deputy Under-Secretary of State and Director-General of the Political Warfare
Executive for England. The volume is a professional autobiography,
concentrating only on the war years, and providing fascinating
details into Britain's approaches and successes/failures in psychological warfare.
LC 72-4672 London, 1947
ISBN: 0405047568 $23.95 Available
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Read, James
Morgan
ATROCITY PROPAGANDA, 1914-1919
This book is a heavily documented study of the psychology of rumor and
propaganda during World War I, with coverage of the German, Belgian, French, British and
American roles.
LC 72-4676 New Haven, Conn., 1941
ISBN: 0405047606 $20.95 Available
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Riegel,
Oscar W.
MOBILIZING FOR CHAOS: The Story of the New
Propaganda
This book is an examination of major media channels on a worldwide basis.
LC 72-4677 New Haven, Conn., 1934
ISBN: 0405047614 $20.95 Available
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UNESCO
PRESS FILM RADIO
Volumes I-V (including Supplements)
These volumes offer the most detailed, in-depth examination available in English on
the operations of the radio, news agencies, newspapers, and film production. An excellent
world overview of post-war communications conditions is presented, excluding only a few
Eastern-European nations and Spain and her colonies. Although this survey started as a
study of technical needs, it concluded as a complete examination of communications media.
Maps, diagrams, and abundant tabular data make these volumes a major reference source.
LC 72-4683 Paris, 1947-1951
ISBN: 0405047673 3vols. $116.95
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Childs,
Harwood Lawrence, editor
PROPAGANDA AND DICTATORSHIP: A Collection of Papers
Chapters, by various authors, are devoted to German, Italian, Soviet and
"Danube Dictatorship" uses of propaganda media in the early and mid 1930s. Also
offered is coverage of research into international communications (by Harold Lasswell),
and propaganda as a function of democratic governments. (Study is continued in Childs' and
Whitton's Propaganda by Short Wave in this Arno series.)
LC 72-4659 Princeton, 1936
ISBN: 0405047428 $13.95 Available
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Childs,
Hardwood Lawrence and John Boardman Whitton, editors
PROPAGANDA BY SHORT WAVE including Charles A.
Rigby's THE WAR ON THE SHORT WAVES
Propaganda by Short Wave, presents
the final report of the Princeton Listening Center project which monitored foreign
broadcasts during the period of November 1939 through June 1941--thus covering most of the
period of Axis expansion. This is the most
detailed report on the most extensive monitoring project in World War II. The War on the
Short Waves offers detailed background of short-wave usage and listings of then current
stations and program transmission times.
LC72-4660 Princeton, 1942/London, 1944
ISBN: 0405047436 illus. $26.95
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Desmond,
Robert W.
THE PRESS AND WORLD AFFAIRS
This is the classic, and in many ways still standard, text on the world ' s
press and international communications. The first pan of the volume explores issues such
as news gathering, world transmission facilities, censorship, and propaganda. The
remainder details the press situation in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, and
concludes with a 14-page bibliography.
LC 72-4665 New York, London, 1937
ISBN: 0405047460 illus. $27.95
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Hadamovsky,
Eugen
PROPAGANDA AND NATIONAL POWER: The Organization of
Public Opinion for National Politics
Hadamovsky, chief of Nazi radio and deputy to Joseph Goebbels, wrote this volume at the
inception of the Hitler era to show how the
National Socialists would use German radio and other media to gain power domestically and
over foreign lands. This is one of the few reports written by Nazi officials which are
available in English. This edition includes the never-translated original bibliography.
LC 72-4667 Urbana, Ill., 1954
ISBN: 0405047487 $16.95 Available
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An Original Anthology
INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA/COMMUNICATIONS: Selections
from The Public- Opinion Quarterly
This collection of more than 60 articles reflects the varying concern and
interest in international communications research of given periods. All topics are covered
including United States wartime propaganda, developing nations' use of media, translation
problems, content analysis, cold war effects on communications, and news flow.
LC 72-4690 Princeton, 1943/1952/1956
ISBN: 0405047525 $36.95 Available
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Lerner,
Daniel, editor
PROPAGANDA IN WAR AND CRISIS: Materials for
American Policy
This book is an important collection of articles and previously unpublished
documents, primarily from the World War II era. The material is used to illustrate the
major theory, practice, content, effects, and overall role of psychological warfare.
LC 72-4669 New York, 1951
ISBN: 0405047541 $30.95 Available
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Linebarger,
Paul M. A.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
This revision of a classic work first issued in 1948 carefully outlines the
background of propaganda and details its role, organization, and effects during World War
II. The many illustrations consist mainly of sample propaganda leaflets from both sides in
Europe and the Far East.
LC 72-4671 New York, 1954
ISBN: 040504755X illus. $27.95
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Summers,
Robert E., editor
AMERICA'S WEAPONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
This book is a collection of reprints from official documents and journalistic
reports on United States political and military propaganda methods, organization, content,
and effects. Coverage is primarily post-war with many historical overtones.
LC 72-4679 New York, 1951
ISBN: 0405047630 $18.95 Available
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UNESCO
TELEVISION: A World Survey (including Supplement)
Because television was so underdeveloped when the original Press Film Radio
surveys were undertaken, UNESCO published an in-depth survey of the emerging television
medium in 1953 and followed it by a supplement in 1955. The volumes together offer a
unique worldwide viewpoint of television in its earliest stages.
LC 72-4684 Paris, 1953/1955
ISBN: 040504769X $18.95 Available
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Williams,
Francis
TRANSMITTING WORLD NEWS: A Study of
Telecommunications and the
Press
This brief but detailed narrative outlines the history and problems of world
news flow, and discusses the role of press associations.
LC 72-4686 Paris, 1953
ISBN: 0405047703 illus. $15.95
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Wright,
Quincy, editor
PUBLIC OPINION AND WORLD-POLITICS
A collection of papers which contain contributions on the economic, political.
and spiritual molders of public opinion, and on the various means of political propaganda
dissemination. In addition there are discussions on the role of journalism, a classic
paper by Harold Lasswell on the strategy of revolutionary and war propaganda, and a review
of propaganda in World War I.
LC 72-4687 Chicago, 1933
ISBN: 0405047711 $18.95 Available
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