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UNINA9910463990303321 |
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Autore |
Van Wagenen Michael |
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Remembering the forgotten war : the enduring legacies of the U.S./Mexican War / / Michael Scott Van Wagenen |
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Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates ) : ill. ; |
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Collana |
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Public History in Historical Perspective |
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Influence |
Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Public opinion |
Collective memory - United States |
Collective memory - Mexico |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Of War and Soccer -- Victory and Dissolution : The United States, 1848/1865 -- In the Shadow of Defeat : Mexico, 1848/1866 -- Old Soldiers and New Wars : The United States, 1866/1895 -- Inventing Heroes : Mexico, 1867/1920 -- Empire and Exclusion : The United States, 1896/1929 -- Rituals of the State : Mexico, 1921/1952 -- Good Neighbors and Bad Blood : The United States, 1930/1965 -- Resisting the Gringos : Mexico, 1953/1989 -- Contesting American Pasts : The United States, 1966/1989 -- Remembrance and Free Trade : The United States and Mexico, 1990/2008 -- Conclusion: Putting the Skeletons to Rest. |
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"This book answers the deeper question of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has shaped the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends. The distant violence becomes a new lens through which to view today's rivalries and resentments"--Page 7. |
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UNINA9910462679203321 |
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Crossman R. H. S (Richard Howard Stafford), <1907-1974., > |
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Plato to-day / / R.H.S. Crossman |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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0-203-10161-8 |
1-283-84215-7 |
1-136-23617-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge library editions. Plato |
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State, The |
Democracy |
Fascism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1959 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. |
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PLATO TO-DAY; Copyright; PLATO TO-DAY; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Plato and the Modern World; 2. The Historical Background; 3. Socrates; 4. Plato; 5. Plato Looks at British Democracy; 6. Plato Looks at British Education; 7. Plato Looks at the Family; 8. Plato Looks at Communism; 9. Plato Looks at Fascism; 10. Why Plato Failed; 11. The Modern Plato Once More; 12. Epilogue; Index |
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Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the modern world bother to read what he had to say? Does it make sense to go to a Greek thinker for advice on the problems of an age so different from his own? To anyone who has questioned the relevance of Plato to the modern world Richard Crossman's lively book provides a brilliant reply. The problem |
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