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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Prussia"”.
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The Policies of France and Prussia 1865-1870
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1919. Major: Political Science. 1 computer file (PDF); 122 pages.
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GIS analysis of the mid-nineteenth century emigration of the Old Lutherans from Prussia
… fewer than 20% of the Germans who emigrated from Prussia between 1835 and 1854. In this study, more than 483 cities and villages of origin of 6,911 Old Lutherans were mapped. These origins were in the central provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Posen, Saxony, and Silesia. More emigrants came from …
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Prussian Bureaucrats and the Jews in West, South, and New East Prussia, 1772-1807
… 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 Prussia as a relatively tolerant …
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Urban Governance and the Conduct of Civic Violence in Silesia, Poland, and Prussia, 1300 – 1500
… in the urban communes of Silesia, Poland, and Prussia and their significance for civic governance during the later middle ages. The thesis compares various examples of civic conflicts from across the three regions to consider (1) what variables led individuals and groups involved in urban …
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to …
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Representations of Prussian life and history in the Preussische Chronik of Simon Grunau
… until around 1530. It delineates many aspects of Prussian customs, culture and history, from humanistic ethnogenesis in pre-Teutonic times, through the Teutonic conquest and subsequently into both daily life and political events in Prussia during his lifetime. Accordingly, Grunau deals with themes …
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The Origins of Transnational Political Policing in Europe, 1830-1870
… and interstate political policing activities of Prussia and of the Habsburg Empire. Focusing on the timeframe between the post-Napoleonic era and the German unification (1871)/the Austro-Hungarian Compromise (1867), this treatise analyzes the reactions of the Prussian and Austrian state …
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Breeding white storks in former East Prussia : comparing predicted relative occurrences across scales and time using a stochastic gradient boosting method (TreeNet), GIS and public data
In dieser Arbeit wurden verschiedene GIS-basierte Habitatmodelle für den Weißstorch (Ciconia ciconia) im Gebiet der ehemaligen deutschen Provinz Ostpreußen (ca. Gebiet der russischen Exklave Kaliningrad und der polnischen Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren) erstellt. Zur Charakterisierung der Beziehung …
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The Origins of German Industrialization: The Transition to Capitalism in Prussian Agriculture
… German economy prior to industrialization, and Prussia, the largest and most important of the polities that would unite to form the German nation-state in the late nineteenth century. The study argues that Prussia experienced a discontinuity in its economic history in the form of a transition to …
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The Republic and Its Children: French Children's Literature, 1855--1900
… events of 1870-1871 -- military defeat by Prussia and the Paris Commune -- when the nation of France suffered military, political, and moral crises, the content of children's literature changed markedly; it became increasingly propagandistic, militaristic and nationalistic, and revanchiste. …
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Ireland and the Waterloo campaign of 1815
… continental powers, most notably Britain and Prussia.
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Fürst Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871) als interkulturelle Mittlerperson zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland. Studie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner unveröffentlichten französischen Briefwechsel
… the court of Napoleon III and the court of Prussia, working for a rapprochement and a united Europe.
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France— Military Causes of Collapse in The West, 1940
… since the lightning war of Napoleon against Prussia in 1806. In less than six weeks one of the powers leading the world was literally swept away from the international scene." | Popular accounts, newspaper exposes— "word of mouth history" as it were—-has generalized, confused and ignored many …
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Il presagio spagnolo. Diplomazie e volontari italiani nella prima guerra carlista
… della penisola: la Gran Bretagna, la Francia, la Prussia, l Austria, la Russia, gli stessi Stati italiani preunitari si mobilitarono per una parte o per l altra. Ma soprattutto si mobilitarono gli individui che volontariamente in Spagna si arruolarono per difendere i nuovi principi liberali o …
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Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
… of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier statesman alongside such luminaries of his day as Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, and others, Gentz was nonetheless of …
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Culture and Exchange: The Jews of Königsberg, 1700-1820
… of the Jewish community in Königsberg, East Prussia, from its founding in 1700 to the aftermath of the Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812, as well as the early stages of Jewish embourgeoisement and political integration. My project combines aspects of a traditional communal history with …
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National Socialism in Contested German Borderlands, 1922-1933
… – Upper Silesia, the Border Province Posen-West Prussia, Masuria, eastern Pomerania, and Schleswig – that between them encapsulate the diversity, in geographic location and in the fluidity of ethnic and national dividing lines, of the country's borderlands. It opens with a discussion of how …
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The Republic and its children: French children's literature, 1855-1900
… events of 1870-1871 – military defeat by Prussia and the Paris Commune – when the nation of France suffered military, political, and moral crises, the content of children’s literature changed markedly; it became increasingly propagandistic, militaristic and nationalistic, and revanchiste. …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… revolution against partitioning powers Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The allusion registers fears of outside threats to the sovereignty of the young, vulnerable United States. As code for the major 1830-31 revolution against partitioning powers, the Polish character in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The …
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Reading Science in Early Writings of Leopold Zunz and Rifāʿa Rāfiʿ al-Ṭahṭāwī: On Beginnings of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Nahḍa
… imperialist ventures, which deeply impacted Prussia as well as Egypt, education and science--whether the Wissenschaft of the philosophical disciplines, or the sciences that drive technology--become foundational for intellectual, spiritual, and/or technological progress. I read both texts as …
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