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The Myth and Reality of German Warfare

Author : Gerhard P. Gross
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813168392
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Myth and Reality of German Warfare written by Gerhard P. Gross and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were extremely influential on military planning across the globe and were adopted by American and Soviet armies. In the twentieth century, Germany's art of warfare dominated military theory and practice, creating a myth of German operational brilliance that lingers today, despite the nation's crushing defeats in two world wars. In this seminal study, Gerhard P. Gross provides a comprehensive examination of the development and failure of German operational thinking over a period of more than a century. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of five different armies, from the mid--nineteenth century through the early days of NATO. He also offers fresh interpretations of towering figures of German military history, including Moltke the Elder, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Erich Ludendorff. Essential reading for military historians and strategists, this innovative work dismantles cherished myths and offers new insights into Germany's failed attempts to become a global power through military means.

Freethinkers in Europe

Author : Carolin Kosuch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110688328
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Freethinkers in Europe written by Carolin Kosuch and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time case studies on secularists of the 19th and early 20th centuries in national and transnational perspectives including examples from all over Europe. Its focus is on freethinkers taken as secular avant-gardes and early promoters of secularity. The authors of this book deal with multiple historical, religious, social, and cultural backgrounds and, in these contexts, analyze freethinkers' organizations, projects, networks, and contributions to forming a secular worldview, in particular, the promotion of concrete undertakings such as civil baptism or initiatives to leave church. Next to this secularist agenda, the contributions also take into account ambivalences and difficulties freethinkers were faced with, namely, the tensions between a national self-image and the transnational direction the movement has taken; the regional base of many projects and their transregional horizon; freethinkers' cultural programs and their immanent political mission; and the dialogue with respectively the conceptual distinction from other secularist groups. Readers interested in the history of secularity will learn that it was a heterogeneous enterprise already in its beginnings. This set the course for later European and global developments.

Writing the History of the Humanities

Author : Herman Paul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350199079
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Writing the History of the Humanities written by Herman Paul and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as “humanities” has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent. Herman Paul leads a stellar line-up of esteemed and early-career scholars to provide an overview of the themes, questions and methods that are central to current research on the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century humanities. This exciting addition to the successful Writing History series will draw from a wide range of case-studies from diverse fields, as classical philology, art history, and Biblical studies, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the field. In doing so, this ground-breaking book challenges the rigid distinctions between disciplines and show the variety of prisms through which historians of the humanities study the past.

The People's Wars

Author : Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199564264
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The People's Wars written by Mark Hewitson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three volumes from Mark Hewitson which explore the experiences of conflict in modern Germany, and the resounding impact of these across Europe and the world, The People's War takes a new look at the 'wars of unification' and charts the rise of nationalism and the breakdown of the existing state system in the 1850s and 1860s.

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 28, 1880

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108879438
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 28, 1880 written by Charles Darwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically. In 1880, Darwin published On The Power of Movement in Plants, and began writing his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms. He was engaged in controversy with Samuel Butler, following publication of his last book, Erasmus Darwin. At the end of the year, he succeeded in raising support for a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection.

London Exhibition 1862 Special Catalogue of the Zollverein-Department

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375016697
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book London Exhibition 1862 Special Catalogue of the Zollverein-Department written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Repopulating the Eighteenth Century

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Edinburgh German Yearbook
ISBN 13 : 1640140190
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Repopulating the Eighteenth Century written by Michael Wood and published by Edinburgh German Yearbook. This book was released on 2018 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume "repopulates" the German Enlightenment.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author : Day Otis Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Day Otis Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Absolute War

Author : Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513958
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Absolute War written by Mark Hewitson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of studies from Mark Hewitson that explore how such conflicts were experienced by soldiers and civilians during wartime, and how they were subsequently imagined and understood during peacetime, from Clausewitz and Kleist to Jünger and Adorno. Without such an understanding, it is difficult to make sense of the dramatic shifts characterising the politics of Germany and Europe over the past two centuries. The studies argue that the ease - or reluctance - with which Germans went to war, and the far-reaching consequences of such wars on domestic politics, were related to soldiers' and civilians' attitudes to violence and death, as well as to long-term transformations in contemporaries' conceptualisation of conflict. Absolute War reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, plays, and cartoons, this volume refocuses attention on combat and conscription as the central components of new forms of mass warfare. It concentrates, in particular, on the impact of violence, killing, and death on many soldiers' and some civilians' experiences and subsequent memories of conflict. War has often been conceived of as 'an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds', as Clausewitz put it, but the relationship between military conflicts and violent acts remains a problematic one.

The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau

Author : Albert R. Rice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190916729
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau written by Albert R. Rice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Albert R. Rice's The Baroque Clarinet is widely considered the authoritative text on the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. Since its publication in 1992, its conclusions have influenced the approaches of musicologists, instrument historians, and clarinet performers. Twenty-eight years later, Rice has updated his renowned study in a second edition, with new chapters on chalumeau and clarinet music, insights on newly found instruments and additional material on the Baroque clarinet in society. Expanding the volume to include the chalumeau, close cousin and predecessor to the clarinet, Rice draws on nearly three decades of new research on the instrument's origins and music. Discoveries include two recently found chalumeaux in a private collection, one by Johann Heinrich Eichentopf of Leipzig, and attributions based on historical evidence for three more chalumeaux. Rice furthers the discussion to recently uncovered early instruments and historical scores, which shed light on the clarinet's evolution. Most essentially, Rice highlights the chalumeau's substantial late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century repertory, comprising over 330 works by 66 composers, and includes a more expansive list of surviving Baroque clarinet works, organized by date, composer, and tonality/range. The Baroque Clarinet and Chalumeau provides a long-awaited follow-up to Rice's groundbreaking volume, drawing from a variety of sources-including German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Flemish, Czech, and Catalan research-to bring this new information to an English-speaking audience. With his dedication to scholarly accuracy, Rice brings the Baroque clarinet into sharper focus than ever before.

Globalizing the Soybean

Author : Ines Prodöhl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000877396
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing the Soybean written by Ines Prodöhl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalizing the Soybean asks how the soybean conquered the West and analyzes why and how the crop gained entry into agriculture and industry in regions beyond Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Historian Ines Prodöhl describes the soybean’s journey centered on three hubs: Northeast China, as the crop’s main growing area up to the Second World War; Germany, to where most of the beans in the interwar period were shipped; and the United States, which became the leading cultivator of soy worldwide during the 1940s. This book explores the German and U.S. adoption of the soybean being closely tied to global economic and political changes, such as the two world wars and the Great Depression. The attraction of the soybean to stakeholders on both sides of the Atlantic was linked to a need for cheap alternatives to butter and lard and a desire for greater quantities of meat, which led to the soybean becoming a cheap resource for fat and fodder. Only occasionally was it also used as food. This volume is useful for anyone who is studying or interested in economic history and commodity trading in the twentieth century. It is also connected to the histories of capitalism, globalization, imperialism, and materiality.

The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine

Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524506
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine written by Andrew Cunningham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading researchers on the nature and genesis of laboratory medicine.

German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut

Author : Julia Hauser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004290788
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut written by Julia Hauser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut. Competing Missions, Julia Hauser offers a critical analysis of the German Protestant Kaiserswerth deaconesses’ orphanage and boarding school for girls in late Ottoman Beirut as situated within the larger field of educational development in the city. Drawing, among other sources, on the deaconesses’ largely unpublished letters home, her study illuminates that the only way missionary organizations like the deaconesses' could succeed was by entering into negotiations with their local environment, adapting their agenda in the process. Mission, therefore, was shaped not merely at home, but by conflictual negotiations on the periphery ‒ a perspective quite different from the top-down isolationist perspective of earlier research on missions.

Civilizing Emotions

Author : Margrit Pernau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198745532
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Civilizing Emotions written by Margrit Pernau and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the concepts of civility and civilization in nineteenth-century Europe and Asia and explores why and how emotions were an asset in civilizing peoples and societies - their control and management, but also their creation and their ascription to different societies and social groups.

The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe

Author : Anthony Mandal
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826469329
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe written by Anthony Mandal and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-10-13 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen's reception across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South. In historical terms, the survey ranges from the near-contemporary - since Austen's novels were available in French very soon after their original publication - to modern times, in those countries which for various reasons, linguistic, historical or ideological, have taken up the novels only in recent years. For many, Austen's novels are valued for their romantic content, as love stories, but increasingly they are being perceived as sophisticated, ironic narratives. In this, the quality of translation has been a significant factor and the many film and television adaptations have played an important part in establishing Austen's reputation amongst the public at large. It will be seen from this that across Europe Austen's 'reception history' is far from uniform and has been shaped by a complex of extra-literary forces.

Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Print Markets and Political Dissent

Author : James M. Brophy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192584502
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Print Markets and Political Dissent written by James M. Brophy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world. The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.