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Philipp Franz von Siebold and the opening of Japan
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ISBN: 1282089056 9786612089053 900421349X 9789004213494 190524620X 9781905246205 190524620X 9781905246205 Year: 2007 Publisher: Folkestone, UK Global Oriental

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Based on new documents, especially von Siebold’s correspondence (including letters to his wife Taki), written advice and draft treaties which were placed in the public domain in 2002 by the Brandenstein-Zeppelin family, the author argues that such is their significance a full re-evaluation of von Siebold’s advisory role vis a vis the United States, Russia and the Netherlands in particular, both before and after the successful opening of Japan in the 1850's is now justified. This new study challenges the conventional Western scholarly view that the key figures involved in the opening of Japan were confined to the US Navy’s Commodore Matthew Perry, and the diplomats Townsend Harris of the US and Rutherford Alcock of the UK. A close examination of the new sources suggests otherwise and also puts von Siebold’s agenda to ‘save’ Japan from being overtaken by what he referred to as the colonial and commercial ambitions of the West’s great maritime nations in a new light. The author also takes pains to debunk the long-held view that von Siebold was a Russian spy. Even so, it is accepted that von Siebold remains a controversial figure whose role was more often than not ‘tinged with considerable selfish aspirations and a belief in his personal infallibility’.


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Philippe Albert Stapfer : une biographie : à Berne de l'ancien Régime à la Révolution helvétique (1766-1798)
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ISBN: 303910814X 9783039108145 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bern: Lang,

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Deus, Judicium tuum Regi da : Grand Motet : 71. Psalm
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Kassel [etc.] Bärenreiter

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Unsterblicher Nachruhm Friedrich Augusts Serenata auf den Tod Augusts des Starken
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Kassel [etc.] Bärenreiter

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The birth of Novalis : Friedrich von Hardenberg's journal of 1797, with selected letters and documents
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ISBN: 0791480682 1429465697 9781429465694 0791469697 9780791469699 9780791480687 Year: 2007 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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A frank and candid glimpse into the early life of the maturing poet.


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Versuch über die musikalische Temperatur, nebst einem Anhang über den Rameau- und Kirnbergerschen Grundbass und vier Tabellen: moderne uitgave met commentaar door Jos De Bie
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Year: 2007 Publisher: Putte De Bie

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Helmut Schmid : Gestaltung ist Haltung = Design Is Attitude
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ISBN: 9783764375096 3764375094 Year: 2007 Publisher: Basel Birkhäuser

Women and writing in the works of Novalis
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ISBN: 9781571133762 1571133763 9781571137074 9786612150616 1282150618 1571137076 Year: 2007 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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The great poet and polymath Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis, was long seen as representing a particular brand of German Romanticism, embodying a predilection for the mystical and the irrational and a longing for death. Yet 20th-century scholars debunked that myth and arrived at a view of the poet as one who produced a unified, precociously modern body of work in which human systems of individual and collective being as well as knowledge and its disciplines exist as fictional structures, as represented possibility rather than fixed truth. As such, all being and knowledge could and should be subjected to the ironic play of Romantic poetry, which sought to renew the individual and the world it inhabited. Hardenberg's work has come in for particular criticism for idealizing women, thus denying the living, expressive female subject; the conservative social roles it ascribes to women are also cited. Although more recent critics have discerned an empowered female subject in Novalis, this is the first balanced, book-length study of gender in Novalis in English. It concludes that Hardenberg's Romantic writing began to be successful in reinventing the 'fiction' of female identity, and goes further to reveal his extensive interaction with women as intellectual equals. James R. Hodkinson is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Warwick, UK.

Expressionismus aus den Bergen: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Philipp Bauknecht, Jan Wiegers und die Gruppe Rot-Blau
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ISBN: 9783906628042 9789071691638 9783858811905 9783858817068 Year: 2007 Publisher: Zürich Scheidegger & Spiess


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Clausewitz's puzzle : the political theory of war
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ISBN: 1281160504 9786611160500 0191525200 1435621018 0191607061 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Blending detailed contextual analysis with issues in modern-day international relations this book provides a major new analysis of the theory of Clausewitz and its relevance to contemporary society. This book argues that Clausewitz developed a wide-ranging political theory of war by reflecting on the success, the limitations, and the failure of Napoleon's method of waging war, a theory, which is still relevant in light of contemporary conflict. This new interpretation is the result of reflecting on Clausewitz's theory in light of the new developments and lays down the foundation of a general t

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