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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451364303321

Autore

Carolan Victoria

Titolo

WW1 at sea / / Victoria Carolan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hertfordshire, England : , : Pocket Essentials, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-84344-098-9

1-84344-101-2

1-84344-099-7

1-281-26070-3

9786611260705

1-84839-606-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Collana

Pocket Essentials

Disciplina

940.45941

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Naval operations, British

World War, 1914-1918 - Naval operations, German

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451471203321

Autore

Gonzalez Pedro Blas <1964->

Titolo

Ortega's ""The Revolt of the Masses"" and the Triumph of the New Man [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007

ISBN

1-281-39827-6

0-87586-472-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

901

901--dc22

Soggetti

Civilization

Ortega y Gasset, José

Proletariat

History - General

History & Archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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