Online talk July 1: Eyal Aviv (George Washington U): Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals
Lecture via zoom on Friday, June 17. Huang Ko-wu will speak about "Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science, Religion, and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu, Liang Qichao to New Confucians"
Zoom-Lecture Ong Chang Woei (National University of Singapore), June 3rd: Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)
You are warmly invited to participate in the next lecture of our 2021/2022 lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
ANK: Neues Hilfsmittel für die Aufklärungs-Forschung (Briefwechsel von Elise Reimarus)
Neues Hilfsmittel für die Aufklärungs-Forschung:
Der Briefwechsel von Elise Reimarus. Ein chronologisches Repertorium
Zoom-Lecture May 27: Luo Zhitian on "Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period"
You are warmly invited to participate in the next lecture of our 2021/2022 lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Liedtke on Grenville, 'The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization, 1790-1945'
J. A. S. Grenville. The Jews and Germans of Hamburg: The Destruction of a Civilization, 1790-1945. New York: Routledge, 2011. 384 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-66585-8; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-66586-5.
Reviewed by Rainer Liedtke (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen) Published on H-Judaic (May, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman
Spickermann on Owzar, '"Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold": Konfliktmanagement im Alltag des wilhelminischen Obrigkeitsstaates'
Armin Owzar. "Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold": Konfliktmanagement im Alltag des wilhelminischen Obrigkeitsstaates. Constance: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2006. 482 pp. EUR 39.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-89669-718-9.
Reviewed by Roland Spickermann (Department of History, University of Texas-Permian Basin) Published on H-German (April, 2009) Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher
Separate Lives
Aaslestad on Weber, 'Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680-1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux'
Klaus Weber. Deutsche Kaufleute im Atlantikhandel 1680-1830: Unternehmen und Familien in Hamburg, Cádiz und Bordeaux. München: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2004. Tables, charts, maps. 403 pp. EUR 59.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-406-51860-7.
Reviewed by Katherine B. Aaslestad (West Virginia University) Published on H-Atlantic (November, 2009) Commissioned by Jordana Dym
