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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’.
Siebold, Philipp Franz von, --- Japan --- History
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Diplomats --- Educators --- Stapfer, Philipp Albert, - 1766-1840 --- Bern (Switzerland) --- France
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Motetten --- Duitsland --- 18e eeuw --- Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
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Duitsland --- Cantates --- 18e eeuw --- Telemann, Georg Philipp (1681-1767)
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A frank and candid glimpse into the early life of the maturing poet.
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Music --- klavieren --- muziektheorie --- stemming (muziek) --- Rameau, Jean-Philippe --- Kirnberger, Johann Philipp --- Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm
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Herausgegeben von = Edited by Victor Malsy & Philipp Teufel, Fjodor Gejko ; Konzept und Gestaltung = Concept and Design : Fjodor Gejko --- grafische vormgeving --- grafisch design --- Duitsland --- typografie --- boeken --- boekontwerp --- verpakkingen --- affiches --- twintigste eeuw --- Schmid Helmut --- 766.071 SCHMID
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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.
Women in literature --- Women in literature. --- Novalis, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Novalis --- Novalis, Friedrich --- von Hardenberg, Friedrich Ludwig, --- Hardenberg, Friedrich, --- Hardenberg, Georg Friedrich Philipp, --- Hardenberg, Georg Philipp Friedrich von, --- 20th century. --- Female identity. --- Female subject. --- Feminism. --- Fiction. --- Friedrich von Hardenberg. --- Gender. --- German Romanticism. --- Mystical. --- Novalis. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Romantic writing. --- Sexism. --- Women in Literature. --- Women's studies.
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Art styles --- Müller, Albert --- Wiegers, Jan --- Camenisch, Paul --- Scherer, Hermann --- Bauknecht, Philipp --- Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig --- anno 1920-1929 --- Switzerland --- expressionisme --- landschappen --- naakt --- portretten --- beeldhouwkunst --- grafiek --- Schmidt, Georg --- Zwitserland --- expressionisme. --- landschappen. --- naakt. --- portretten. --- sculptuur. --- Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig. --- Scherer, Hermann. --- Müller, Albert. --- Wiegers, Jan. --- Schmidt, Georg. --- Zwitserland. --- sculptuur
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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
Military art and science. --- Military art and science --- History --- Clausewitz, Carl von, --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- Klausewitz, Karl von, --- Klauzevit︠s︡, --- Von Clausewitz, Carl, --- Clausewitz, Karl von, --- Ḳlaʼuzvits, Ḳarl fun, --- קלאוזביץ --- Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottfried von,
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