Munitions of the Mind: a History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day

Munitions of the Mind: a History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day Philip M. Taylor. Manchester University Press, (1990, 1995) revised edition 2003. 344 pp., illus. £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0–7190–6767–7. Munitions of the Mind is clearly a successful book that has been perceived by its publishers to have a lasting relevance to a broad audience. Philip M. Taylor, Professor of International Communications at the University of Leeds, first published the book in 1990. A second edition was produced in 1995, and was reprinted in 2002, and has now been replaced by a third, revised edition, published in 2003. In its original format, the book set out to offer a broad history of war propaganda from the times of ancient civilizations of the Middle East up to the cold war of the twentieth century, albeit with a Western bias. It retains the original five sections dealing with...