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This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. ("Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress"), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany's sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany's educated middle class. Prof. & public leaders such as Friedrich Naumann, Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Gertrud Baumer, Adolf von Harnack, & Hans Delbruck addressed the yearly meetings. A c...

Fate and Utopia in German Sociology provides a lucid introduction to a major sociological tradition in Western thought. It is an intellectual history of five scholars?Ferdinand Tönnies, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Georg Lukács?who created modern German sociology over the course of fifty years, from 1870 to 1923.Liebersohn portrays his subjects as thinkers who were deeply immersed in the politics and poetry of their time, and ...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary globalized musical culture has become ubiquitous and unremarkable, its fascinating origins long predate the internet era. In Music and the New Global Culture, Harry Liebersohn traces the origins of global music to a handful of critical transformations that took place between the mid-nineteenth and ear...

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This book is a history of modern European interpretations of the gift in global context.

European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.

This 1999 book relates how European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.

Examines the transformation of global knowledge during the great age of scientific exploration. This book moves beyond the traditional focus on British and French travelers to include Germans, Russians, and some Americans, as well as the Tahitian, Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islanders they encountered.

This book is a history of modern European interpretations of the gift in global context.