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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"German nationalism"”.
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's (re)unification process in 1989/90, which was a prime example of a nationalist event. However, Kohl's nationalism went beyond the one nation = one state …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… biography is concerned with the personal nationalism of Helmut Kohl. The so-called Chancellor of Unity was instrumental in Germany's (re)unification process in 1989/90, which was a prime example of a nationalist event. However, Kohl's nationalism went beyond the one nation = one state …
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TIME, IDENTITY AND NATION IN GERMAN TRAVEL WRITING ON AFRICA 1848-1914
ABSTRACT Between 1848 and 1914 a wave of German explorers travelled to Africa, enticed by the promise of geographical, botanical and anthropological discovery. Each Afrikareisender composed a narrative account of his German-African encounters and so produced a characteristic mode of travel writing. …
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Solo angel roles in vocal music : tracing the use of angel roles from 1600 to the present
… sacred choral works; however, movements such as German nationalism, romanticism, and historicism, as well as the influence of Felix Mendelssohn helped to revive interest in sacred vocal music. The twentieth century witnessed a renewed fascination with angels, causing a resurgence in the amount of …
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Heinrich Bewerunge (1862–1923): A Critical Reassessment of His Life and Influence
… on his reputation (ostensibly motivated by anti-German nationalism) which have affected his reception ever since.
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Viennese Culture and Politics, 1861 to 1938: Everyday Expressions of ‘German’ Identity
… the nature, aims, depth and extent of radical German nationalist feeling that existed in the city in the period down to 1938. In particular, it addresses the level of support that existed among radical groups on the Right in favour of the joining of Austria and Germany into one country. This …
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Conditional Nationalism: A Study of the Nationalistic Ideology of Richard Wagner with Specific Reference to his Music-Drama Die Meistersinger Von Nuremberg
The nationalism of Richard Wagner has been a hotly contested matter in the popular and academic spheres since even his own lifetime. While it is generally agreed upon that Wagner’s work celebrates German nationalism and identity to some degree, a debate rages on under the banner of this discussion, …
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Progress and the People in German Political Thought after Kant, 1781-1831
This dissertation explores the German political philosophy that emerged from a generative encounter between two revolutions in the 1780s. The first of these was Immanuel Kant’s “Copernican Revolution”, an epochal vindication of human reason that revealed the autonomous subject at the centre of the …
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Fiction, ideology and history : a critical examination of Hans Grimm's novel 'Kaffernland'
… Kaffernland, eine deutsche Sage (Kaffraria, a German Legend) within the context of the historical discourse of the nineteenth-century as it has been challenged by presentday critical historiography. Central to Grimm's text is the problematic relationship between fiction and historical reality. …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
This dissertation examines a series of West German-American transatlantic fêtes from 1948 to 1952 and places them within the context of Cold War diplomatic history, West German-American rapprochement, and the westernization of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the earliest years of the Cold War, …
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Edmund Burke's German readers at the end of Enlightenment, 1790-1815
… Edmund Burke received a vibrant reception in German-speaking Europe. Anxious to uncover the ideological roots of the anarchy that enveloped France – and worried that their own society might be vulnerable to a similar fate – a series of important German thinkers began studying his Reflections …