19th Century German History

Frey - Determinanten der Mediennutzung kaiserzeitlicher Unterschichten

by Felix Frey

draft only, to appear in Annemone Ligensa & Daniel Müller (Hg.): Rezeption. Die andere Seite der Medienumbrüche. Bielefeld: transcript 2012.

A German Immigrant's Tale-The Huning-Fergusson Family Correspondence

by Tina Boyer

Usener's Christmas: A Contribution to the Modern Construct of Late Antique Solar Syncretism, in: Die Metamorphosen der Philologie. Hermann Usener und seine Folgen, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2011. 139-152

by Steven Hijmans

‘“Der heilige Pakt, der unsere Kraft und unser Stolz...” Selbstpositionierungen deutscher und französischer Juden im Spannungsfeld von jüdischer Solidarität und Patriotismus, 1870/71’, in Judaica (March/June 2007), 63:1/2, pp. 76-102

by Christine G. Krueger

German Suffering in the Franco–German War, 1870/71, in German History Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 404–422

by Christine G. Krueger

Suffering during the Franco–Prussian War of 1870/71 has to be interpreted in the context of three developments: the... more Suffering during the Franco–Prussian War of 1870/71 has to be interpreted in the context of three developments: the willingness to alleviate wartime suffering, which had led to the foundation of the International Red Cross and the Geneva Convention a few years earlier, the industrialization of war, which had enormously
increased the efficiency of the weaponry, and the nationalization of war. For many Germans, the outcome of the war justified the wartime suffering, which was often trivialized in the media. The small number of authors who saw the high casualty numbers and the pain of the victims as a warning about the onsequences of modern warfare usually belonged to the anti-Prussian opposition. Nationalist euphoria in the face of victory and German unification drowned out such critics, whose patriotism was in doubt. Finally, the remembrance of the war during the Kaiserreich aimed largely at celebrating the triumph of the German army and the foundation of the national state. The glorification of the military was hardly compatible with a detailed description of the misery of the battlefield and the pain of war victims. In 1870/71 and in the subsequent decades, nationalism overwhelmed and eventually excluded a humanitarian narrative.
Keywords: Franco–Prussian War, suffering, nationalism, ideology of progress, international humanitarian law, war remembrance

‘Treuevorstellungen deutscher und französischer Juden im Krieg von 1870/71’, in Buschmann, Nikolaus/Murr, Karl Borromäus (eds.): Treue. Politische Loyalität und militärische Gefolgschaft in der Moderne, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2008, pp. 328-347.

by Christine G. Krueger

Religiöse Bildung und Erziehung nach Darwin. Zur Metaphysik einer wissenschaftlichen Pädagogik, in: Pädagogik und Theologie. Der evangelische Erzieher, Heft 4, 2009, pp.363-375.

by Karsten Kenklies

Nietzsche's Peace With Islam: My Enemy's Enemy is My Friend

by Ian Almond

Published in German Life and Letters

Ferdinand von Richthofen and the relationship between science and imperialism in the making of the German colony in China

by Ghassan Moazzin

This paper examines the often neglected role science played during the age of imperialism by analysing the role the... more This paper examines the often neglected role science played during the age of imperialism by analysing the role the geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen played in the making of the German colony in China. It will be shown that during the age of imperialism an interdependent relationship between science and imperialism developed in which both elements influenced and shaped each other. The paper will conclude that this interdependent relationship between science and imperialism decisively shaped the final stage of imperialism and that only the interplay between science and imperialism made it possible for imperialist visions to become reality.