Author: Tamra Orr Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1612282032 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Declared a national holiday in the United States after World War I, Memorial Day honors those who have died for their country. It is the time to pause and say thank you to all the people in the armed services who have helped make freedom possible. Find out how people around the world celebrate Memorial Day—with family picnics and city parades, poetry and poppies, flyovers and salutes, and moments of silence and prayer. Declarado como un dia feriado nacional en Estados Unidos despues de la I Guerra Mundial, el día de los Caidos honra a quienes murieron por su pais. Es la oportunidad para hacer una pausa y agradecer a todas las personas en el ejercito que han ayudado a hacer posible la libertad de que disfrutamos. Enterate de como se celebra el dia de los caidos en todo el mundo, con meriendas campestres en familia y desfi les en las ciudades, poesias y amapolas, desfi les aereos y salvas, y momentos de silencio y oracion.
Author: Connor Dayton Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1448862426 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Presidents Day was established back in 1880 to honor George Washington, the first president of the United States. Over the years, it has become a holiday to celebrate the careers of many of Americas other illustrious commanders in chief. Simple text explains the origins and history of the holiday while photographs present the many ways people celebrate our nations leaders on this one special day.
Author: Katherine Hite Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136583645 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 186
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Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states and societies symbolically to right wrongs, to recognize loss, to assert distinct historical narratives that are not dominant. This book explores relationships among art, representation and politics through memorials to violent pasts in Spain and Latin America. Drawing from curators, art historians, psychologists, political theorists, holocaust studies scholars, as well as the voices of artists, activists, and families of murdered and disappeared loved ones, Politics and the Art of Commemoration uses memorials as conceptual lenses into deep politics of conflict and as suggestive arenas for imagining democratic praxis. Tracing deep histories of political struggle and suggesting that today’s commemorative practices are innovating powerful forms of collective political action, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, Latin American studies and memory studies.
Author: Daniel Newcomer Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803233492 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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Reconciling Modernity challenges the academic consensus of a simplistic Church-State reconciliation in postrevolutionary Mexico and reveals instead a cultural power struggle between entrenched elite factions, each intending to define Mexico?s national identity. Using documents found in regional archives, Daniel Newcomer provides a new interpretation of how radically opposed conservative and revolutionary elites came to a political dätente in the traditional Catholic stronghold of Le¢n, Guanajuato, during the 1940s. Le¢n?s conservatives sought to limit the influence of the revolutionary government because state-sponsored modernization projects threatened local character and institutions. Tensions regarding the extent of state power culminated in the 1946 Le¢n massacre, during which government troops gunned down more than two dozen citizens. As the defining moment in local history, the violent confrontation helped solidify a new elite consensus, or an ?official story,? that hinged on negotiated tenets of modernity?particularly ideals of industrialization and democracy?and supposedly validated state power among the general population. Newcomer argues that advocates of the revolutionary state and their local opposition, including the pro-Catholic Sinarquistas, attempted to create ?hegemonic appearances? to legitimate their claims to political power but ultimately relied on a rationalization of the use of state violence to enforce the social order they idealized. Reconciling Modernity concludes that the postrevolutionary government proved unable to legitimize its rule among the popular classes and reveals how history written by the victors can obscure the processes of historical change.
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