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Vormärz Of Germany And The Critique Of Heinrich Heine, Andrew Dean Henley

Dissertations and Theses

The conclusion of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars marked the beginning of the modem world. In western Europe new ideals about the position of the individual and the future of society flourished in the early nineteenth century--prior to the revolutions of 1848. However, the forward move into the modem world was stymied in the multitude of states which composed Germany after 1815. Due to a combination of factors- political repression, conservative/romantic trends, social lethargy, and liberal immaturity--German society in the period 1815-1848--the Vormärz (pre-March 1848) clung to traditional ways. The most famous German writer of this period, Heinrich …

The National German-American Alliance, 1901 -1918: Cultural Politics And Ethnicity In Peace And War, Charles Thomas Johnson

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to tell the story of the National German- American Alliance, an organization of middle to upper-middle class well-educated professionals formed in 1901 to promote and preserve aspects of German culture in the United States. Increasingly, however, it found itself drawn into controversial political and diplomatic issues in the rapid political, social and international change that marked the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The dissertation begins with a review of German-America from colonial times to 1899 and serves as a background for the founding of the Alliance within the context of the growth …

Review Essay On Recent Literature About Music And German Politics, David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Promptly at ten a.m. President Karl J. Niederer called the business meeting to order. He noted that since the Swiss Town House had been sold, this was the first time that we have met in another New York City location. He expressed the thanks of the society to Rosa Schupbach, a member of the Board of Advisors, for having found the location in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and for having so efficiently taken care of the local arrangements. He also acknowledged Richard Frey of the church staff for his help.

(Review) Konfessionalisierung Am Obermain: Reformation Und Gegenreformation In Den Pfarrsprengeln Von Baunach Bis Markgraitz, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

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Full Report

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Agenda For The Business Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Program For The Afternoon Meeting

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Note On Karl Saurer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Obituary

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Robert Henry Billigmeier, who passed away on October 26, 1996 of complications from a stroke, was a distinguished teacher and scholar. Born on January 16, 1917 in McClusky, North Dakota, he moved with his family to Santa Rosa, California in 1933, where he graduated from high school and attended Santa Rosa Junior College. He went on to get a Bachelor's Degree in History from Stanford University in 1938 and a Master's Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1940. When World War II broke out, he went to work for the Wes tern Defense Command and later for the Cartography …

(Review) Poor, Sinning Folk: Confession And Conscience In Counter-Reformation Germany By W. David Myers, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

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(Review) The Reformation And Rural Society: The Parishes Of Brandenburg, Ansbach, Kulmbach, 1528-1603, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

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The Making Of The French Episcopate, 1589–1661 (Book Review), John B. Roney

History Faculty Publications

Reviews the book by Joseph Bergin.

Bergin, Joseph. The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780300067514

Review Of Jonathan Petropoulos, Art As Politics In The Third Reich (Chapel Hill: North Carolina U.P., 1996), David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Bibliography

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Review Of The Book Statistical Handbook 1996: States Of The Former Ussr, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Statistical Handbook 1996: States of the Former USSR.

The Golden Age Of Roman Helvetia, H. Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Any traveller who had visited the region of present day Switzerland in the first century before Christ and who could have returned there three centuries later at the end of the second century of the Christian era would have been astonished by the differences between the two periods. Whereas the pre-Roman country of the Helvetii had been a vast forest whose inhabitants had lived in rudimentary hilltop oppida and had spent their lives hunting, fishing and tilling the soil of small farms, the Roman province of Helvetia in the third century after Christ was a prosperous nation whose citizens lived …

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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London Poor Relief During The Second Industrial Revolution: 1867-1901, David W. Lescarini

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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(Review) Die Katholische Konfessionalisierung, Marc R. Forster

History Faculty Publications

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(Review) Adels- Und Königsfamilien Im Spiegel Ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studien Zum Totengedenken Der Billunger Und Ottonen, Frederick S. Paxton

History Faculty Publications

Reviews the book "Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studien zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen," by Gerd Althoff.

The Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920: A Bibliography Of Materials In English, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

As World War I came to an end, the borders in Central and Eastern Europe were tenuous, and in some cases non-existent, and several countries came into territorial conflict. The battle between Poland and the Soviet Union was a pivotal event in twentieth century history, as Poland not only dealt the Red Army its first defeat, but also greatly expanded the territory of the fledgling Polish Republic to its historic, pre-partition borders.

From The Printing Press To The Guillotine: Gracchus Babeuf And The Revolutionary Language Of Thermidor, David Brian Audley

Dissertations and Theses

The traditional history of Franc̦ois-Noel 'Gracchus' Babeuf has been centered on politics and socialism. Since his death in 1 797 historians have attempted to show the foundations of nineteenth and twentieth-century social revolution and communism in the polemical works of Babeuf. One result of this method of research has been an assumption of contradiction within Babeuf's writings in the months immediately following the fall of Maxmilien Robespierre. Historians have assumed that the seemingly anti-Robespierrist rhetoric found from September 1794 to February 1795 was both a product and an evidence of the 'Thermidorization' of Babeuf. However, a close textual analysis of …

Thompson Document 17: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Bridget Croft warmly praising Croft’s A Sense of Purpose, which she had just received, and expressing her hope that Croft will attempt to have it published. Thompson also includes the abstract from her thesis which details the process by which she found Jack Croft and began corresponding with him in 1973.

Thompson Document 16: Letter From Bridget Croft To Henrietta Thompson And Two Selections From Croft's Manuscript, Bridget Croft

Henrietta Thompson Papers

Two selections of the manuscript that Bridget Croft sent to Henrietta Thompson on Feb 16, 1997. The first page describes Croft’s childhood in Ireland. The second selection is Croft’s description of the “allied” retreat from Burma. She describes the “hot and tough” trek by the Stilwell group, quoting sections of Henrietta Thompson’s work, but she also describes the retreat of the British Army. She takes the position that “the retreat [of the British Army] was made more difficult by large numbers of refugees trying to escape from Burma.” She fails to mention that the refugee families fleeing their bombed cities …

Switzerland: 2050, Natalie Jomini

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Today, in the year 2050, Switzerland has changed immensely over the past fifty years. From watches to robots, Switzerland has redefined technology. Advances and difficulties overcome have propelled the Swiss to world leadership in many areas. Swiss industry, although maintaining past trends, has championed and led the world into an era of Artificial Humanoidal Intelligence (AHi). This robotics movement has changed the world's standard of living. Swiss hero, Maggie Meier, developed one of the first artificial humanoids, and the industry has taken off since then. In addition, Swiss continue their supremacy in pharmaceutical production. The country has pursued a vigorous …

Mari Sandoz: Portrait Of A Swiss American Author, Laura Villiger

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Land of Promise, where the gold flows, where buffaloes roam in big herds attracting adventurous hunters, where Redskins are chased and defeated by cowboy heroes-these are some of the ideas people in the 19th century commonly held about the American West. Even today, the Old West is often associated with the same pictures. But we also know today that these pictures largely belonged to a myth--a myth propagated in Europe as well as in the so-called 'civilized' East of the American continent. It helped to take hold of the Western territory not only in people's minds, but also in reality.

Book Review: Das Selbstverstiindnis Eines Schweizerischen Auswanderer-Vereins In Den Usa: Die Geschichte Der Zeitschrift Swiss-American Historical Society Review,", Sabine Jessner

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Racine's work treats two subjects: the Society and the contents of the Swiss-American Historical Society Review. After a brief overview of the Society's first decades following its 1927 founding in Chicago, she traces in detail its evolution since 1965. The structure of the organization and the gender, educational, and geographical distribution of the membership are discussed. Although the diplomat Lukas Burckhardt reorganized the Society in 1965, the author fails to underscore his important role, while she does stress the leading part that academics--especially historians--have played. She-stresses Leo Schelbert's many contributions to the history of Swiss-American immigration, offering a review …