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UNINA9910451364303321 |
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Carolan Victoria |
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WW1 at sea / / Victoria Carolan |
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Hertfordshire, England : , : Pocket Essentials, , 2014 |
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1-84344-098-9 |
1-84344-101-2 |
1-84344-099-7 |
1-281-26070-3 |
9786611260705 |
1-84839-606-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (137 p.) |
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World War, 1914-1918 - Naval operations, British |
World War, 1914-1918 - Naval operations, German |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; About the Author; By the Same Author; Title; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; The War Begins; The Surface Raiders and the Battles of Coronel and the Falklands; Turkey and Mesopotamia; Submarines and the Baltic; The Battle of Jutland; Defeating the U-Boat and the Final Stages of the War; Profiles; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Copyright |
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Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth and the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of the sea. In 1914 at the beginning of the war, Britain's maritime supremacy had remained unchallenged for around a hundred years. Many expected another Battle of Trafalgar but advances in technology saw a very different kind of warfare with the widespread use of mines, submarines and torpedoes. This book examines the events that led to wa |
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UNINA9910451471203321 |
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Gonzalez Pedro Blas <1964-> |
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Ortega's ""The Revolt of the Masses"" and the Triumph of the New Man [[electronic resource]] |
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New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
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1-281-39827-6 |
0-87586-472-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Civilization |
Ortega y Gasset, José |
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History - General |
History & Archaeology |
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Contents; By Way of an Introduction; Philosophy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 1 Revisiting The Revolt of the Masses; Chapter 2 Ortega's Notion of Mass Man and Noble Man; Chapter 3 Subjectivity and Mass Culture; Chapter 4 Toward a Celebration of Man's Achievements; Chapter 5 Toward an Aesthetics of Life; Chapter 6 Nihilism and Collective Banality; Chapter 7 Authenticity and Borrowed Opinions The Bloated Ship of State; Chapter 8 Mass Man The Triumph of the New Man; Chapter 9 The New Man Parody of Genuine Individualism |
Chapter 10 Mass Man's Existential Revolt and the Future of Human FreedomBibliography; Primary Sources; Works by Ortega in English Translation; Secondary Sources; Index |
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This book is first and foremost a detailed and meticulous study of Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses (1930). No other up-to-date books explore this thinker and his great work. Most importantly, the author demonstrates the relevance and importance of Ortega y |
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Gasset's thought and his The Revolt of the Masses for today's world, showing, for instance, how Ortega's categories like mass man and decadence, have been vindicated by today's spiritual, moral and cultural decay. This aspect of the book will perhaps be of major interest to the reading public. What Ortega argues for in his brief h |
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