Katholischer Arbeiterinnen-Kalender 1914
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Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101875674
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674737024
As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.
Author : Marie Paneth
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Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1944
Category : Child psychology
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Author : Sven Oliver Müller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857452878
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.
Author : Herbert George Wells
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Page : 62 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Socialism
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Page : 392 pages
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Release : 1870
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Author : Saxony (Kingdom). Statistisches Landesamt
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Page : 440 pages
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Release : 1914
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Meteorological reports included as follows: in 1866-1870, "Uebersicht der Resultate aus den meteorologischen Beobachtungen angestellt auf den königlich sächsischen Stationen, December 1865 [-December 1870]"; in 1871-1875, "Monatliche Berichte über die Resultate aus den meteorologischen Beobachtungen angestellt an den königlich sächsischen Stationen im Jahre 1871 [-April 1875]"