A. P. Elkin: Public morale and propaganda

Late in 1941, Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander of the 2nd Australian Infantry Force (AIF) in the Middle East, was back in Australia for consultations when he publicly condemned complacency about the war, accusing his fellow Australians of leading a ‘carnival life’, comparing them with ‘a lot of gazelles...

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Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied sciences
Armed conflict
Australia: History
Behavioral sciences
Biography
Communication
Communications
Cultural anthropology
Democracy
Economic policy
Economics
Elkin, A. P. (Adolphus Peter)
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Government
Historiography
Indigenous peoples
Mass communication
Military morale
Military science
Morale
Opinion polls
Political anthropology
Political regimes
Political science
Political systems
Propaganda
Psychology
Public opinion
Research methods
Social attitudes
Social psychology
Social sciences
Survey methods
Survey research
War
War economics
War effort
World War 2
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