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Johannes Stark und die gescheiterte Erklärung deutscher Nobelpreisträger zur Volksabstimmung vom 19. August 1934. [PDF]
Ber WissDrawing on previously unknown sources, this article documents the physicist Johannes Stark's unsuccessful attempt to publish a declaration by German Nobel laureates in support of the August 1934 referendum. Following the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, this referendum aimed to legitimize the transfer of the two highest state offices—Reich
Hoffmann D, Kleinert A.
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Exkursionen als Beitrag zur praxisorientierten akademischen Lehre - Wilhelm Kählers Besichtigungen der pommerschen Wirtschaft in der Weimarer Zeit. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2021 Abstract In the German Weimar Republic of the 1920s, the field of economic science found itself in a crisis environment beyond the limits of its understanding. Very few contributions from academia found their way into practice, and thus the limited interplay between the two was of little consequence.
Grube K.
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Jung, Bion and the Crucible of War [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract WWI had a transformative effect on the lives and ideas of both Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion. Both suffered intense and life‐changing experiences, which they carried with them for the rest of their lives. For Jung, living in neutral Switzerland, the febrile tension of the war emerged in a stream of archetypal imagery, while his daily life ...
Ann Addison
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Transnational Solidarities and Competing Visions of Europe: Vienna's Vote on the Russo‐Japanese War
History, Volume 107, Issue 378, Page 885-909, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The 1904–05 Russo‐Japanese War is commonly described as a clash between a European power (Russia) and an Asian one (Japan). This binary framing is problematic, however, as ideas of Europeanness and Asianness were hotly contested during the war.
ULRICH BRANDENBURG
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International Trade, the Great War, and the Origins of Taxation: Sister Republics Parting Ways
Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 585-603, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The First World War was a watershed moment for the development of the modern tax state. Yet, whereas the tax yield strongly increased in this period, little is known about how the tax mix changed, in particular regarding the turn to direct taxation.
Patrick Emmenegger, André Walter
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Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy
The Economic History Review, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 1026-1053, November 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper provides a detailed analysis of excess mortality during the ‘Spanish Flu’ in a developing German economy and the effect of poverty and air pollution on pandemic mortality. The empirical analysis is based on a difference‐in‐differences approach using annual all‐cause mortality statistics at the parish level in the Kingdom of ...
Richard Franke
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 337-358, September 2022., 2022 This article contributes to the body of research on fin‐de‐siècle Viennese and Austrian history, as well as the history of ideas and press history. It expands on the scholarship by focusing on one newspaper — the Catholic‐conservative Reichspost (affiliated with the Christian Social Party) — to analyse how it perpetuated the cult of personality ...
Chris O'Neill
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NEUE MENSCHEN, NEUE POETEN: EXPRESSIONISMUS, GENIE UND ARBEITERDICHTUNG
German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 430-447, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT While the German Expressionists announced an end to bourgeois art, hopes of a literary revolution also rose in the labour movement. Since the 1910s, worker poets, such as Gerrit Engelke and Karl Bröger; literary critics, such as Julius Bab; and leading political figures of the Social Democratic Party such as Clara Zetkin, proclaimed a poetical
Annika Hildebrandt
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German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 341-364, July 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella Der arme Spielmann.
Werner Michler
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Nature, Politics, and the Traumas of Europe
Population and Development Review, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 579-609, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Nature has been the major source of demographic shocks until the nineteenth century, after which Politics has gradually become the main factor of catastrophic traumas. During the first part of the past century, war, violence, forced migration, man‐made famines, and the epidemics unchained by them were responsible for tens of millions of deaths.
Massimo Livi‐Bacci
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