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The Resource Race, nation, history : Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era, Oded Y. Steinberg

Race, nation, history : Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era, Oded Y. Steinberg

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In Race, Nation, History, Oded Y. Steinberg examines the way a series of nineteenth-century scholars in England and Germany first constructed and then questioned the periodization of history into ancient, medieval, and modern eras, shaping the way we continue to think about the past and present of Western civilization at a fundamental level. Steinberg explores this topic by tracing the deep connections between the idea of epochal periodization and concepts of race and nation that were prevalent at the time--especially the role that Germanic or Teutonic tribes were assumed to play in the unfolding of Western history. Steinberg shows how English scholars such as Thomas Arnold, Williams Stubbs, and John Richard Green; and German scholars such as Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Max Müller, and Reinhold Pauli built on the notion of a shared Teutonic kinship to establish a correlation between the division of time and the ascent or descent of races or nations. For example, although they viewed the Germanic tribes' conquest of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476 as a formative event that symbolized the transformation from antiquity to the Middle Ages, they did so by highlighting the injection of a new and dominant ethnoracial character into the decaying empire. But they also rejected the idea that the fifth century A.D. was the most decisive era in historical periodization, advocating instead for a historical continuity that emphasized the significance of the Germanic tribes' influence on the making of the nations of modern Europe. Concluding with character studies of E.A. Freeman, James Bryce, and J.B. Bury, Steinberg demonstrates the ways in which the innovative schemes devised by this community of Victorian historians for the division of historical time relied on the cornerstone of race
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Race, nation, history : Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era
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Race, nation, history
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Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era
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Oded Y. Steinberg
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eng
Summary
In Race, Nation, History, Oded Y. Steinberg examines the way a series of nineteenth-century scholars in England and Germany first constructed and then questioned the periodization of history into ancient, medieval, and modern eras, shaping the way we continue to think about the past and present of Western civilization at a fundamental level. Steinberg explores this topic by tracing the deep connections between the idea of epochal periodization and concepts of race and nation that were prevalent at the time--especially the role that Germanic or Teutonic tribes were assumed to play in the unfolding of Western history. Steinberg shows how English scholars such as Thomas Arnold, Williams Stubbs, and John Richard Green; and German scholars such as Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, Max Müller, and Reinhold Pauli built on the notion of a shared Teutonic kinship to establish a correlation between the division of time and the ascent or descent of races or nations. For example, although they viewed the Germanic tribes' conquest of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476 as a formative event that symbolized the transformation from antiquity to the Middle Ages, they did so by highlighting the injection of a new and dominant ethnoracial character into the decaying empire. But they also rejected the idea that the fifth century A.D. was the most decisive era in historical periodization, advocating instead for a historical continuity that emphasized the significance of the Germanic tribes' influence on the making of the nations of modern Europe. Concluding with character studies of E.A. Freeman, James Bryce, and J.B. Bury, Steinberg demonstrates the ways in which the innovative schemes devised by this community of Victorian historians for the division of historical time relied on the cornerstone of race
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1980-
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Steinberg, Oded Y.
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907.2/041
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index present
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DA1
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.S78 2019
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non fiction
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bibliography
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Intellectual history of the modern age
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  • Great Britain
  • Germany
  • Historians
  • Historians
  • History
  • Race
  • Nationalism
  • 08.24 newer western philosophy (17-19th century)
  • Historians
  • Historiography
  • History
  • Nationalism
  • Race
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
  • Nationalismus
  • Deutschland
  • Europa
  • Großbritannien
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Race, nation, history : Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era, Oded Y. Steinberg
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-251) and index
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1052875152
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24 cm.
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271 pages
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9780812251371
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2018055499
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(OCoLC)1052875152
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Race, nation, history : Anglo-German thought in the Victorian era, Oded Y. Steinberg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-251) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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1052875152
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
271 pages
Isbn
9780812251371
Lccn
2018055499
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1052875152

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