Friedrich Rosen

Author : Amir Theilhaber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639643

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Friedrich Rosen by Amir Theilhaber Pdf

The German lacuna in Edward Said’s 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said’s argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the “Orient” and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities, Persian poetry in translation, prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes, leveraging knowledge in high-stakes diplomatic encounters, and the making of Germany’s Islam policy up to the Great War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet, scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to cognition. On their own terms or influenced by “Oriental” savants they aligned with politics or challenged claims to conquest and rule.

Author : Amir Theilhaber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639544

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Friedrich Rosen by Amir Theilhaber Pdf

The German lacuna in Edward Said’s 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said’s argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the “Orient” and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities, Persian poetry in translation, prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes, leveraging knowledge in high-stakes diplomatic encounters, and the making of Germany’s Islam policy up to the Great War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet, scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to cognition. On their own terms or influenced by “Oriental” savants they aligned with politics or challenged claims to conquest and rule.

Author : Amir Theilhaber
Publisher : De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : History
ISBN : 3110639254

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Friedrich Rosen by Amir Theilhaber Pdf

The German lacuna in Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said's argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the "Orient" and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities, Persian poetry in translation, prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes, leveraging knowledge in high-stakes diplomatic encounters, and the making of Germany's Islam policy up to the Great War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet, scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to cognition. On their own terms or influenced by "Oriental" savants they aligned with politics or challenged claims to conquest and rule.

Author : Friedrich Rosen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351343176

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Revival: Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist (1930) by Friedrich Rosen Pdf

His Excellency Dr. Friedrich Rosen, the well known German Diplomatist and Orientalist, has written a fascinating account of his manifold experiences in the Near East, including Palestine, Syria, Persia and Mesopotamia, during a period of forty years. Many politically important or otherwise interesting mean and women, such as Ex-Emperor William II, Prince Bulow, Baron von Holstein, Sir Frank Lascelles, Sir Valentine Chirol, Lord Curzon and Miss Gertrude Bell, are spoken of in this volume.

Author : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503629806

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The Discovery of Iran by Ali Mirsepassi Pdf

The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya. In his quest to imagine a future for Iran open to the scientific riches of the modern world and the historical diversity of its own people, Arani combined Marxist materialism and a cosmopolitan ethics of progress. He sought to reconcile Iran to its post-Islamic past, rejected by Persian purists and romanticized by their traditionalist counterparts, while orienting its present toward the modern West in all its complex and conflicting facets. As Ali Mirsepassi shows, Arani's cosmopolitanism complicates the conventional wisdom that racial exclusivism was an insoluble feature of twentieth-century Iranian nationalism. In cultural spaces like Donya, Arani and his contemporaries engaged vibrant debates about national identity, history, and Iran's place in the modern world. In exploring Arani's short but remarkable life and writings, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the image of Interwar Iran as dominated by the Pahlavi state to uncover fertile intellectual spaces in which civic nationalism flourished.

Author : Hubert P. Van Tuyll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9004122435

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The Netherlands and World War I by Hubert P. Van Tuyll Pdf

An examination of how the Netherlands combined espionage, deterrence, diplomacy, and economic policy to avoid World War I.

Author : Rosane Rocher,Agnes Stache-Weiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447114487

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For the Sake of the Vedas by Rosane Rocher,Agnes Stache-Weiske Pdf

Author : ʻUmar Ḫayyām,ʿUmar Ḫaiyām
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1407814171

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“The” "Quatrains" of ʿOmar Khayyām by ʻUmar Ḫayyām,ʿUmar Ḫaiyām Pdf

Author : John Rabe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375701979

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The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe Pdf

The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality. Until the recent emergence of John Rabe's diaries, few people knew abouth the unassuming hero who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China. In Novemgber 1937, as Japanese troops overran the Chinese capital of Nanking and began a campaign of torture, rape, and murder against its citizens, one man-a German who had lived in China for thirty years and who was a loyal follower of Adolph Hitler-put himself at risk and in order to save the lives of 200,000 poor Chinese, 600 of whom he sheltered in his own home.

Author : Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231560443

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An Impossible Friendship by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi Pdf

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals—among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors, scholars, and critics—came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. What brought these Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends together, and what became of them in the aftermath of 1948, the year of the creation of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba? Sonja Mejcher-Atassi tells the story of this unlikely friendship and in so doing offers an intimate cultural and social history of Palestine in the critical postwar period. She vividly reconstructs the vanished social world of these protagonists, tracing the connections between the specificity of individual lives and the larger contexts in which they are embedded. In exploring this ecumenical friendship and its artistic, literary, and intellectual legacies, Mejcher-Atassi demonstrates how social biography can provide a picture of the past that is at once more inclusive and more personal. This group portrait, she argues, allows us to glimpse alternative possibilities that exist within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine. Bringing a remarkable era to life through archival research and nuanced interdisciplinary scholarship, An Impossible Friendship unearths prospects for historical reconciliation, solidarity, and justice.

Author : David S. Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135898601

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The Search for Negotiated Peace by David S. Patterson Pdf

The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations, resulting in 30 million casualties, including more than 8 million killed. Set against the backdrop of this massive carnage, The Search for Negotiated Peace is the gripping story of the events that moved high profile American and European citizens, particularly women, into the international peace movement. This small, transatlantic network put forth proposals for changing the international system of negotiation. They supported non-annexationist war aims and attempted to discredit nations’ secret diplomacy, militarism and narrowly nationalistic practices. Instead, they wanted to develop a ‘new diplomacy.’ David Patterson skillfully develops the interactions of many of the notable leaders of the movement, including Jane Addams, Aletta Jacobs, and Rosika Schwimmer, into an absorbing narrative that brings together the various strands of women's history, international diplomatic history, and peace history for the first time. The Search for Negotiated Peace is an essential read for anyone interested in the social history of World War I and the foundations of citizen activism today.

Author : Elise POLKO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017949758

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Reminiscences of F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. A social and artistic biography. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. With additional letters addressed to English correspondents by Elise POLKO Pdf

Author : Elise Polko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Jews
ISBN : BCUL:1094192872

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Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy by Elise Polko Pdf

Author : Oron James Hale
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512816563

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Germany and the Diplomatic Revolution by Oron James Hale Pdf

The influence of German, English, and French newspapers on the formation of European alliances early in the twentieth century.

Author : Bill Hickman,Gary Leiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317612957

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Turkish Language, Literature, and History by Bill Hickman,Gary Leiser Pdf

The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Turkish language, literature and history between the eighth century and the present. The chapters move between ancient and contemporary literature, exploring Sultan Selim’s interest in dream interpretation, translating newly uncovered poetry and exploring the works of Orhan Pamuk. Linguistic complexities of the Turkish language and dialects are analysed, while new translations of 16th century decrees offer insight into Ottoman justice and power. This is a festschrift volume published for the leading scholar Bob Dankoff, and the diverse topics covered in these essays reflect Dankoff’s valuable contributions to the study of Turkish language and literature. This cross-disciplinary book offers contributions from academics specialising in linguistics, history, literature and sociology, amongst others. As such, it is of key interest to scholars working in a variety of disciplines, with a focus on Turkish Studies.