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The Art of Dreams - Reflections and Representations (Hardcover): Barbara Hahn, Meike Werner The Art of Dreams - Reflections and Representations (Hardcover)
Barbara Hahn, Meike Werner
R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the unconscious: One is the attempt of interpreting, of unveiling the hidden meaning of dreams. The other one is not so much concerned with the relation of dream and meaning, of dream and reality, it rather concentrates on trying to find means of representation for this extremely productive force that determines our sleep. The essays collected in this book explore both attempts. They follow debates in philosophy and psychoanalysis and they study literature, theatre, dance, film, and photography.

Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Hardcover): Barbara Hahn Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
Barbara Hahn
R2,397 R2,243 Discovery Miles 22 430 Save R154 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history.

Rahel Varnhagen - The Life of a Jewish Woman (Paperback): Hannah Arendt, Barbara Hahn Rahel Varnhagen - The Life of a Jewish Woman (Paperback)
Hannah Arendt, Barbara Hahn
R407 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R50 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Paperback): Barbara Hahn Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
Barbara Hahn
R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning jennies to steam engines came to define an age that culminated in the acceleration of the fashion cycle, the intensification in demand and supply of raw materials and the rise of a plantation system that would reconfigure world history in favour of British (and European) global domination. In this accessible analysis of the classic case of rapid and revolutionary technological change, Barbara Hahn takes readers from the north of England to slavery, cotton plantations, the Anglo-Indian trade and beyond - placing technological change at the centre of world history.

The Cotton Kings - Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans (Hardcover): Bruce E. Baker,... The Cotton Kings - Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans (Hardcover)
Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn
R982 R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Save R71 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Cotton Kings relates a rip-roaring drama of competition in the marketplace and reveals the damage markets can cause when they do not work properly. It also explains how they can be fixed through careful regulation. At the turn of the twentieth century, cotton was still the major agricultural product of the American South and an important commodity for world industry. Key to marketing cotton were futures contracts, traded at exchanges in New York and New Orleans. Futures contracts had the potential to hedge risk and reduce price volatility, but only if the markets in which they were traded worked properly. Increasing corruption on the powerful New York Cotton Exchange pushed prices steadily downwards in the 1890s, impoverishing millions of cotton farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to solve the problem with better crop predictions and market information, shared equally and simultaneously with all participants, but these efforts failed. To fight the cotton market's corruption, cotton brokers in New Orleans, led by William P. Brown and Frank Hayne, began quietly to assemble resources. They triumphed in the summer of 1903, when they cornered the world market in cotton and raised its price to reflect the reality of increasing demand and struggling supply. The brokers' success pushed up the price of cotton for the next ten years. However, the structural problems of self-regulation by market participants still threatened the cotton trade. More corruption at the New York Cotton Exchange appeared, until eventually political pressure inspired the Cotton Futures Act of 1914, the federal government's first successful regulation of a financial derivative.

Geographische Handelsforschung (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2020): Cordula Neiberger, Barbara Hahn Geographische Handelsforschung (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2020)
Cordula Neiberger, Barbara Hahn
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In den meisten Landern stellen Stadtzentren noch heute den wichtigsten Standort von Einzelhandel und Dienstleistungen dar. Allerdings zeichnet sich ein Wandel ab, denn durch Globalisierung, Digitalisierung und veranderte Konsumgewohnheiten haben sich die Anforderungen an den modernen Einzelhandel verandert. Die Einzelhandelsunternehmen bevorzugen heute andere Standorte als noch vor 50 Jahren, die traditionelle Rolle der Innenstadte ist damit unter Druck geraten. So ist eine ausserst vielfaltige Handelslandschaft entstanden, die in Groesse, Sortiment, Preislage, Zielgruppe und Standort differiert. Das Lehrbuch ist nach dem Akteursgruppenansatz der Wirtschaftsgeographie gegliedert, erganzt um die Betrachtung von Standorten und Standortsystemen sowie einen methodischen Teil. Es werden die Entwicklung der Handelsunternehmen, das Konsumentenverhalten sowie der Einfluss von Investoren, Planern und Politikern auf Standorte des Einzelhandels auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene betrachtet.

German Literature, Jewish Critics - The Brandeis Symposium (Hardcover): Stephen D Dowden, Meike G. Werner German Literature, Jewish Critics - The Brandeis Symposium (Hardcover)
Stephen D Dowden, Meike G. Werner; Contributions by Amir Eshel, Barbara Hahn, Christoph Koenig, …
R2,648 Discovery Miles 26 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in theAmerican and British academic settings? Above all, how did they help shape German studies in the postwar era? This unique and important symposium, which convened at Brandeis University under the auspices of its Center for Germanand European Studies, addresses these and many other questions. Among its distinguished participants--who numbered over thirty in all--are Peter Demetz (Yale, emeritus), Gesa Dane (Goettingen), Amir Eshel (Stanford), Willi Goetschel (Toronto), Barbara Hahn (Princeton), Susanne Klingenstein (MIT), Christoph Koenig (Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Egon Schwarz (Washington University St. Louis, emeritus), Hinrich Seeba (UC Berkeley), Walter Sokel (University of Virginia, emeritus), Frank Trommler (University of Pennsylvania), and many more. The volume includes not only the (revised) essays of the participants but also their prepared responses, transcripts of the panel discussion, and dialogue of the participants with members of the audience. Stephen D. Dowden is professor of German at Brandeis University; Meike G. Werner is assistant professor of German at Vanderbilt University.

Goethe in German-Jewish Culture (Hardcover, Revised 2000): Klaus L Berghahn, Jost Hermand Goethe in German-Jewish Culture (Hardcover, Revised 2000)
Klaus L Berghahn, Jost Hermand; Contributions by Barbara Hahn, Brenda Machosky, Christoph Koenig, …
R2,232 Discovery Miles 22 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New essays examining Goethe's relationship to the Jews, and the contribution of Jewish scholars to the fame of the greatest German writer. The success of Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners(1997) and the heated debates that followed its publication exposed once again Germany's long tradition of anti-Semitism as a major cause of the Holocaust. Goldhagen, like many before him, drew a direct and irresistible line from Luther's pamphlets against the Jews to Hitler's attempted annihilation of European Jewry. This collection of new essays examines the thesis of a universal anti-Semitism in Germany by focussing on its greatest author, Goethe, and seeing to what extent some scholars are justified in accusing him of anti-Semitism. It places the reception of Goethe's works in a broader historical context: his relationship to Judaism and the Jews; the reception of his works by the Jewish elite in Germany, the reception of the 'Goethe cult' by Jewish scholars; and the Jewish contribution to Goethe scholarship. The last section of the volume treats the Jewish contribution to Goethe's fame and to Goethe philology since the 19th century, and the exodus of many Jewish authors and scholars after 1933, when they took their beloved Goethe into exile. When a few of them returned to Germany after 1945, it was to a country that had lost Goethe's most devoted audience, the German Jews. KLAUS L. BERGHAHN and JOST HERMAND are professors of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Jewess Pallas Athena - This Too a Theory of Modernity (Paperback): Barbara Hahn The Jewess Pallas Athena - This Too a Theory of Modernity (Paperback)
Barbara Hahn
R1,019 Discovery Miles 10 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schuler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous.

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