Author: Peter Koch Publisher: VVW GmbH ISBN: 3899527267 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Für nicht wenige seiner Leser gilt der Aachener Jurist, Wissenschaftler, Publizist und Hochschullehrer Peter Koch als der Versicherungshistoriker schlechthin. In seinem nunmehr über 60-jährigen Schaffen hat er wie kein anderer die Erforschung der Geschichte der Versicherung beeinflusst und vorangebracht. Das Ergebnis seines Lebenswerks ist beeindruckend: Eine schier unüberschaubare Fülle von Büchern, Aufsätzen, Festschriften und Unternehmensdarstellungen sowie das einmalige Standardwerk Geschichte der Versicherungswirtschaft in Deutschland. Prof. Dr. Peter Koch hat sich bei einer großen Lesergemeinde in und außerhalb der Assekuranz einen Namen gemacht. 2015 möchte ihn der Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags mit einer Auswahl seiner historischen Beiträge ehren. Die Auswahl zeichnet ein Bild seiner Beiträge, die er in den letzten zehn Jahren für die Zeitschrift Versicherungswirtschaft verfasst hat. Prof. Dr. Peter Koch steht auch mit 80 Jahren mitten in der Arbeit. Man darf also gespannt sein.
Author: Heinrich Beck Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110175363 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : de Pages : 740
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Dieser Band geht der Frage nach, warum die Deutschen seit Jahrhunderten ohne Zögern die antiken Germanen als ihre unmittelbaren Vorfahren betrachtet haben und vielfach noch heute betrachten. Obgleich der methodische Fortschritt in den Wissenschaften hat erkennen lassen, dass damit einer konstruierten Kontinuität und einer erfundenen Tradition das Wort geredet wird, dienten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert die 'freiheitsliebenden' und 'kriegerischen' Germanen der Antike zur Motivation zeitgenössischen Handelns. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren die vielschichtigen Prozesse dieser - oft wider besseres Wissen vollzogenen - Gleichsetzung und ihre politischen Konsequenzen. Der Band bündelt die Erträge einer interdisziplinären Tagung, die vom 1. bis 3. Dezember 2000 in Freiburg veranstaltet wurde.
Author: Jari Eloranta Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811016054 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 298
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This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.
Author: Mosche Zimmermann Publisher: Mohr Siebeck ISBN: 9783161479274 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 136
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A speech delivered by Zimmermann upon his receiving the Dr. Leopold-Lucas prize for the year 2002, printed in English and German on opposite pages. Deplores the historiographic neglect of the calamitous fate of German Jewry during the war period. Part of the reason is perhaps that for Germans, including German historians, it was too disturbing to consider the murder of their own neighbors, whereas Israeli historians are oriented toward studying Eastern European Jewry. German Jews made up only about 2% of all European Jews, but the process of their annihilation was in many ways distinctive and requires a historiography of its own. Yet in the context of the general history of the Holocaust or of the Jews in Germany, the topic is usually considered briefly, if at all. More is to be found in accounts of specific aspects (e.g. economic or cultural), in survivors' memoirs, and in local studies; but a comprehensive monograph is lacking. also argues that the association of Nazism solely with Auschwitz deprives us of lessons on racism and antisemitism that can be learned from its earlier stages.
Author: Pamela E. Selwyn Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271031158 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 437
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In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the importance attributed to Nicolai’s role in the intellectual life of his age by his own contemporaries. While long neglected by students of the period, who tended to accept the caricature of him as a philistine who failed to recognize Goethe’s genius, Nicolai has experienced a resurgence of interest among scholars reexploring the German Enlightenment and the literary marketplace of the eighteenth century. This book, drawing upon Nicolai’s large unpublished correspondence, rounds out the picture we have of Nicolai already as author and critic by focusing on his roles as bookseller and publisher and as an Aufkärer in the book trade.
Author: James Retallack Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192523910 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 715
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Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans' perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are considered together. Although the bourgeois face of German authoritarianism was nowhere more evident than in the Kingdom of Saxony, Red Saxony illustrates how other Germans grew to fear the spectre of democracy. Certainly twists and turns lay ahead, yet that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004187278 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 496
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In May 1940, the Netherlands were overrun by German armed forces. The five-day campaign might seem to be a prime example of Blitzkrieg, which led shortly afterwards to the rapid and unexpected overthrow of France. This book, based on the newest scholarly research, argues that this is too simple a view. Even though the German assault on the Netherlands made use of tanks, aircraft and airborne troops, it was still a classic campaign against a weak opponent in a theater on the margins of Fall Gelb. In many instances, artillery and infantry were the decisive factors and it is debatable whether the bombing of Rotterdam can be seen as a precursor to the aerial terror campaigns against civilian populations that marked the later stages the Second World War. Contributors are H. Amersfoort, H.W. van den Doel, P.H. Kamphuis, P.M.J. de Koster, C.M. Schulten and J.W.M. Schulten.
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