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UNISA996201148403316 |
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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to the Age of Pericles / / edited by Loren J. Samons II [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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1-139-81667-5 |
1-139-00115-9 |
9781139001151 |
1139001159 |
9780521807937 |
052180793X |
9780521003896 |
052100389X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 343 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to the ancient world |
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Greece History Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C |
Athens (Greece) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-331) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Democracy and empire / P.J. Rhodes -- 2. Athenian religion in the Age of Pericles / Deborah Boedeker -- 3. The Athenian economy / Lisa Kallet -- 4. Warfare in Athenian society / K.A. Raaflaub -- 5. Other sorts: slave, foreign, and female identities in Periclean Athens / Cynthia Patterson -- 6. Art and architecture / Kenneth Lapatin -- 7. Drama and democracy / Jeffrey Henderson -- 8. The bureaucracy of democracy / J.P. Sickinger -- 9. Plato's Sophists, intellectual history after 450, and Sokrates / Robert W. Wallace -- 10. Democratic theory and practice / R. Sealey -- 11. Athens and Sparta and the coming of the Peloponnesian War / J.E. Lendon -- Conclusion: Pericles and Athens / L.J. Samons. |
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Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and |
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expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles both fostered and supported many of these developments. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This collection of essays reveal the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible. |
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UNINA9910790045203321 |
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Autore |
Tirman John |
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The deaths of others [[electronic resource] ] : the fate of civilians in America's wars / / John Tirman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011 |
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0-19-983149-1 |
0-19-025237-5 |
1-283-09916-0 |
9786613099167 |
0-19-970099-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Civilians in war |
Battle casualties |
War and society - United States |
Militarism - United States |
United States History, Military 20th century |
United States History, Military 21st century |
United States Military policy |
United States Foreign public opinion |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war. |
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Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans de |
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