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Author Smith, Woodruff D.

Title Politics and the sciences of culture in Germany, 1840-1920 / Woodruff D. Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index.
Contents The liberal theoretical pattern in nineteenth-century German social science -- The crisis of liberalism and the emergence of cultural science, 1848-1862 -- The contexts of cultural science -- The crisis of liberalism and the emergence of cultural science, 1862-1885 -- Berlin ethnology as neoliberal cultural science -- Völkerpsychologie -- Bauer, Volk, and Kultur: the peasant as the foundation of culture -- The diffusionist revolt -- Exploration, imperialism, and anthropology -- Historical economics and cultural history -- Intellectual politics and cultural science in the Wilhelmian era -- Lebensraum--theory and politics in human geography -- Cultural science and politics.
Summary This study traces the roots of German imperialist ideology by examining the German cultural sciences of the 19th century and their relationship to politics.
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Subject Politics and culture -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Politics and culture.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Learning and scholarship -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Learning and scholarship.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Indexed Term Culture Related to Politics History
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Woodruff D. Politics and the sciences of culture in Germany, 1840-1920. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (DLC) 90042623
ISBN 9780195362275 (electronic book)
0195362276 (electronic book)
1280525142
9781280525148
0195065360 (Cloth)
9780195065367