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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Frederick the Great"”.
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… dissertation fundamentally re-interprets King Frederick the Great of Prussia as military commander and military thinker, and uses Frederick to cast new perspectives on the warfare of ‘his time’: that is, of the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries. It uses the methodology of cultural …
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Frederick the Great and His Grand Chancellor Samuel Von Cocceji: A Studyin the Reform of the Prussian Judicial Administration, 1740-1755
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Prussian Bureaucrats and the Jews in West, South, and New East Prussia, 1772-1807
This dissertation examines policies towards the Jews in late eighteenth-century Prussia, paying particular attention to its eastern provinces in present-day Poland. Drawing on archival sources from Germany, Poland, Israel, and the US, it complicates traditional narratives of eighteenth-century …
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A History of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the First State Normal School in America
<p>During the decades of the 1820's and 1830's, educators in this country studied the European schools where the principles of Johann H. Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Friedrick Froebel (1782-1852), and Emanuel Fellenberg (1771-1844) had been put into practice with favorable results. The Prussian normal …
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
<p>The Victorian Author Thomas Carlyle was in his day a meteoric voice but his popularity and reputation declined significantly due in part to his link to fascism. In the politically polarized era of the Second World War, academics and propagandists dubbed him a fascist or Nazi in both defamation …
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Sonata for flute and basso continuo (WQ 128) : a transcription for cello
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, worked in a transitional period of music between the Baroque and the Classical period. He is considered the most notable sonata composer in Berlin during the reign of Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the …