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Das Buch handelt von dem Frankfurter Schriftgiessereibesitzer Georg Hartmann. In jungen Jahren kaufte er 1898 die Bauer"sche Giesserei und brachte sie im Rahmen der Buchkunstbewegung zu neuer Blute. Fuhrende Schriftkunstler wie E. R. Weiss und Paul Renner entwickelten in seinem Auftrag Druckschriften; mit der Futura brachte die Bauersche Giesserei so eine der beruhmtesten und erfolgreichsten Schriften des 20. Jahrhunderts heraus. In zahlreichen bibliophilen Buchern, die ebenfalls in seinem Unternehmen entstanden, wandte er die neuentwickelten Schriften an. Die kostbaren Bucher wurden in einer innovativen Form von burgerlichem Mazenatentum an Kulturinstitute oder exklusive Kreis von Kennern verschenkt. Der Hohepunkt dieses Buchprogramms wurde zur Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs erreicht, als Hartmann dem verfemten und im Exil weilenden Max Beckmann den Auftrag gab, die biblische Apokalypse zu illustrieren. Auch ein Band von Hesse war in Planung, wurde jedoch ein Opfer der Zeit. Hartmann war daruber hinaus ein bedeutender Kunstsammler und Unterstutzer zahlreicher Kulturinstitute seiner Vaterstadt Frankfurt. In der NS-Zeit bewies er Mut, indem er Bedrangten Zuflucht in seinen Unternehmen bot und anderweitig half; doch handelt das Buch auch von den Kompromissen, zu denen er sich als burgerlicher Unternehmer im Nationalsozialismus genotigt sah. Noch an den Debatten um den Wiederaufbau nach dem Krieg, etwa der beruhmten Kontroverse um das Frankfurter Goethehaus, dessen Verwaltungsrat er vorstand, nahm er aktiven Anteil.
When queer Jewish people migrated from Central Europe to the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century, they contributed to the creation of a new queer culture and community in Palestine. This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine. While the first section of the book presents queer geographies, including Germany, Austria, Poland and Palestine, the second section introduces queer biographies between Europe and Palestine including the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), the writer Hugo Marcus (1880–1966), and the artist Annie Neumann (1906-1955).
Preussen, Deutsche oder Polen? Bereits die Frage nach der ethnischen Einordnung der Masuren fuhrte in der Vergangenheit zu einem deutsch-polnischen Dauerkonflikt. Jahrhundertelang lebten die Masuren als loyale preussische Untertanen polnischer Zunge im Konigreich Preussen. Erst der Einzug nationalistischer Ideen nach 1870 machte die Masuren im sudlichen Ostpreussen zu einem Gegenstand permanenter Spannungen in den deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen. Obwohl beide Nationalismen die Masuren fur sich reklamierten, blieben sie Fremdkorper in beiden Kulturen. Daher folgte ihre kontinuierliche politische Instrumentalisierung, die abwechselnd unter deutscher und polnischer Fahne nur ein Ziel erreichte: den Untergang der Masuren auf der ethnischen Landkarte Ostmitteleuropas.
The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Japan, The Social Construction of Democracy explores the reasons for the success and failure of democracies over the past 100 years. With its sharp portraits of nations on four continents, George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman shed light on the historical process by which state institutions and social movements interact to create political systems based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
The recent revival of democracy across much of the globe, and the fragility of many of the new regimes, has inspired renewed interest in the origins of dictatorship and democracy in modern times. Assembling renowned specialists on Eastern and Western Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Japan, The Social Construction of Democracy explores the reasons for the success and failure of democracies over the past 100 years. With its sharp portraits of nations on four continents, George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman shed light on the historical process by which state institutions and social movements interact to create political systems based on the principle of popular sovereignty.
Eliza Frances “Fanny” Andrews (1840–1931) was born into south-ern aristocracy in Washington, Georgia. The acclaimed author of Journal of a Georgia Girl: 1864–1865, she was an exceptional woman who went on to become a journalist, writer, teacher, and world-renowned botanist. In 1870, as Andrews was working on her first novel, she embarked on a visit to wealthy “Yankee kin” in Newark, New Jersey. The trip had a profound effect on her life, as she was astonished by the contrasts between North and South. This previously unpublished segment of Andrews’s writings begins with her New Jersey sojourn and ends with her mother’s death in 1872. It is remarkable for the light it sheds on the social and economic transformations of the Reconstruction era, particularly as they were perceived and experienced by a southern woman.Andrews was an intelligent, sharp-witted, and skilled observer, and these qualities shine through her engaging memoir. She records her reactions to Newark society and the economic base on which it stood, comparing southern gentility and agriculture to northern brusqueness and industry. Moreover, while the diary reveals clearly the social and cultural attitudes of aristocratic southerners of the period, it also foreshadows the beginning of change as, for example, a visit to a factory opens Andrews’s eyes to the advantages of the new economy. She also recounts her frustrations with the role of southern women, exalted on the one hand but severely restricted on the other. These stark contrasts and Andrews’s own mixed feelings give the diary much of its power.Also included in this volume are six of Andrews’s magazine and newspaper articles that appeared in the national press around the time she was keeping this journal. Taken together, her private and public writings from this period show a maturing nineteenth-century woman confronting a culture turned upside down in the new world of the Reconstruction-era South.Andrews’s memoir, with accompanying introduction and commentary by Kit Rushing, will appeal to general readers with an interest in the nineteenth-century South as well as to historians of women, the Civil War era, and nineteenth-century America.
This book considers a crucial moment in the development of English higher education, and also provides a new and comprehensive history of the early decades of Durham University. During the Age of Reform innovative ideas about the role and purpose of a university were moving at an unprecedented pace. Proposals for new institutions in all parts of the country were developing quickly and resulted in the foundation of Durham University, London University (later re-styled University College, London), and King’s College, London. While normally overshadowed by the London institutions, this book demonstrates not only that Durham attempted to produce a far broader institution than any historian has given its founders credit for, but that a remarkable attempt at a third-way in English higher education has been neglected. Matthew Andrews therefore not only provides the first fully researched account of this important national institution since 1932, but also carefully situates Durham in its contemporary context, and alongside the two other most prominent emerging institutions of that time.
This book considers a crucial moment in the development of English higher education, and also provides a new and comprehensive history of the early decades of Durham University. During the Age of Reform innovative ideas about the role and purpose of a university were moving at an unprecedented pace. Proposals for new institutions in all parts of the country were developing quickly and resulted in the foundation of Durham University, London University (later re-styled University College, London), and King’s College, London. While normally overshadowed by the London institutions, this book demonstrates not only that Durham attempted to produce a far broader institution than any historian has given its founders credit for, but that a remarkable attempt at a third-way in English higher education has been neglected. Matthew Andrews therefore not only provides the first fully researched account of this important national institution since 1932, but also carefully situates Durham in its contemporary context, and alongside the two other most prominent emerging institutions of that time.
The History of the Last Quarter - Century in the United States 1870-1895 - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The History of the Last Quarter-Century in the United States 1870-1895 - Volume I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war. A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana, with names, place of origin, rank, occupation, income, and number of slaves owned. This book is a highly useful reference work for historians, military scholars and genealogists conducting research on Germans in the American Civil War and the American South.
