Author: Stephen G. Gross File Type: pdf German imperialism in Europe evokes images of military aggression and ethnic cleansing. Yet, even under the Third Reich, Germans deployed more subtle forms of influence that can be called soft power or informal imperialism. Stephen G. Gross examines how, between 1918 and 1941, German businessmen and academics turned their nation - an economic wreck after World War I - into the single largest trading partner with the Balkan states, their primary source for development aid and their diplomatic patron. Building on traditions from the 1890s and working through transnational trade fairs, chambers of commerce, educational exchange programmes and development projects, Germans collaborated with Croatians, Serbians and Romanians to create a continental bloc, and to exclude Jews from commerce. By gaining access to critical resources during a global depression, the proponents of soft power enabled Hitler to militarise the German economy and helped make the Third Reichs territorial conquests after 1939 economically possible. **Book Description A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. This book explores the emergence of German soft power and informal economic empire and their role in enabling the militarisation of the German economy and the Third Reichs territorial conquests after 1939. About the Author Stephen G. Gross is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University, and a former government economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington DC. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Fellowship, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. At NYU he teaches the history of capitalism, modern German history, the history of fascism, and theories of political economy, and he won an outstanding instructor award during his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Central European History, Contemporary European History, German Politics and Society, and Eastern European Politics and Society.

Author: Ludwig Feuerbach File Type: epub Feuerbachs departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marxs early writings.Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible without reference to certain basic Feuerbachian texts. These selections, most of them previously untranslated, establish the thought of Feuerbach in an independent role. They explain his fundamental criticisms of the old philosophy of Hegel, and advance his own humanistic thought, which finds its bases in life and sensuality. Feuerbachs contemporaneity as an existentialist, humanist, and atheist is clearly presented, and the reader can readily grasp the liberating influence of this too-long neglected philosopher.Professor Zawar Hanfi has written an excellent introduction establishing Feuerbachs environment, importance, and relevance and his translations surpass most previous Feuerbach translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author: Henry S. Robinson File Type: pdf A group of closed deposits, ranging in date from the 1st century B. C. to the early 7th century A. D., provide evidence for the relative and absolute chronology of pottery used during many centuries of Roman domination from the sack of Athens by Sulla in 86 B.C. to the Byzantine period. A descriptive catalogue divides the pottery into eight groups, arranged into chronologically differentiated layers. Prefacing the catalogue of each group, a brief general description gives the location, chronological limitations, basis for dating, etc., and then the individual items are described in considerable detail.

Author: Jeanne Neton File Type: pdf