Product Description: The first comprehensive account of the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884 and 1885, this book looks at the mixed motives behind the partition of Africa into colonial monopolies. Historians from both Africa and Europe interpret this unique moment in Euro-Africa relations, looking at the origins of the meeting, the priorities of negotiators, economic interests, missionary aspirations, and national rivalries...read more

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Product Description: The history of European expansion overseas also includes the history of the expansion of concepts and principles of European law into the non-European world. The values and ideas it expressed have, to this day, deeply influenced indigenous societies and governments...read more

Product Description: English summary: Max Weber's correspondence during the years 1909 and 1910 gives a clear and in-depth picture of his personal and scholary development and his scholary activities in public. This volume thus offers profound insight into the development of the social and cultural sciences in Germany at the same time...read more

Product Description: English summary: This volume fills an outstanding research deficit. For the first time Max Weber's essays from the 1890s have been edited in their entirety along with a critical commentary and an assessment of the contemporary background...read more

Product Description: In this volume, a sequel to his study "Max Weber and German Politics", the author provides statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts...read more

Product Description: English summary: Weber's famous speeches which he delivered to students in Munich at the end of his life, are presented together in a historical critical edition for the first time. Included are also a newspaper report of Science as a Vocation and the notes Weber used for Politics as a Vocation Through an introduction as well as through editorial reports and detailed commentaries the speeches, which Weber had revised for publication, are made accessible to the reader as never before...read more

Product Description: Beitrage zur Verfassungsfrage anlasslich der Verhandlungen im Reichsamt des Inneren vom 9. bis 12. Dezember 1918 - Deutschlands kunftige Staatsform - Entwurfe fur die Paragraphen 11 und 12 einer Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches - Erklarungen zum Scheitern der Kandidatur fur die Wahlen zur Nationalversammlung im Wahlkreis 19 (Hessen-Nassau) - Der freie Volksstaat - Zum Thema Kriegsschuld - Zur einer Erklarung der Heidelberger Couleurstudenten - Diskussionsbeitrage anlasslich der Grundersitzung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur die Politik des Rechts (Heidelberger Vereinigung) - Der gebundene Privatbesitz in der badischen Verfassung - Der Reichsprasident - Die Untersuchung der Schuldfrage - Die wirtschaftliche Zugehorigkeit des Saargebietes zu Deutschland - Unitarismus, Partikularismus und Foderalismus in der Reichsverfassung - Diskussionsbeitrage anlasslich der Beratungen im Auswartigen Amt zur Vorbereitung der Friedensverhandlungen, 29...read more

Product Description: English summary: The Max Weber-Studienausgabe (MWS) renders Max Weber's works and speeches accessible to a large audience, using the complete and reliable Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe (MWG) as its basis while deliberately dispensing with its editional apparatus...read more

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Product Description: "In recent years the discussion of imperialism has become so compartmentalized that it is difficult for somebody who is not directly involved to put the often polemical discussion and the various scientific and political positions forward into a relevant context...read more