General Marshall in Princeton, Thucydides in the Cold War
This paper analyzes appeals to Thucydidian lessons made by George C. Marshal, in 1947, andLaurie Johnson, at the beginning of the 1990’s. The first one reacting to the Americanestablishment demands face the vicissitudes of the Cold War, and the second one claiming thenecessity of reacquiring Thucydi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) |
| Repositorio: | História da Historiografia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/10 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/10 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Thucydides Historical narrative Cold War Tucídides Narrativa historiográfica Guerra Fria |
| Sumario: | This paper analyzes appeals to Thucydidian lessons made by George C. Marshal, in 1947, andLaurie Johnson, at the beginning of the 1990’s. The first one reacting to the Americanestablishment demands face the vicissitudes of the Cold War, and the second one claiming thenecessity of reacquiring Thucydidian lessons to the political realities of contemporary world. It isdemonstrated how the United States scholarly discourse has adapted its ideals regardingdifferent moments of the political ideology and historical knowledge paradigms correspondentsto these ideologies. |
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