The representations of "war romanticism" at the turn of the century(19th to 20th): a comparative cultural history

我们的项目旨在从比较的角度阐明妇女、儿童、甚至殖民地人民积极参加战争的原因和方式。事实证明，通过复制技术不断重复使用的文字、图像、音乐、展览等各种媒体的战争宣传，在一定程度上发挥了关键作用。正是因为政府确实意识到了这种宣传的重要性，才成立了外交部的情报部和陆军部的报业部。战争宣传的技术被政府的官方宣传和商业宣传所采用。我们的项目从不同的角度仔细审视了这一历史进程。

Our project has aimed at making clear, with a comparative perspective, the reasons for and the way of the enthusiastic participation in the war, which was demonstrated by women, children and even colonized peoples. It has been found out that the war propaganda, including such various media as printed words, images, music and exhibitions, which was endlessly repeated by the use of reproduction technology, played somewhat a crucial role. It was precisely because the government did realize the importance of such propaganda that the Intelligence Department in the Foreign Office and the Newspaper Division in the War Office were set up. The very technique of war propaganda was to be adopted by the government's official publicity and commercial publicity business. Our project has closely examined this historical process from various viewpoints.