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Ilan Avineri HIST-444W October 5th, 2017 Annotated Bibliography #1 Baranowski, Shelley. Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Drawing on recent studies of the links between colonialism and genocide, Nazi Empire traces the development of proto-Nazism though a comprehensive history of Imperial Germany. Baranowski exposes the near chronic expansionist aspiration of Imperial Germany and the simultaneous

He obtained his PhD afterward in Germany from the prestigious University of Göttingen. Oppenheimer was always a brooding and intense man. As a youth he suffered some degree of torment from kids his age for his bookish tendencies. During his college years, he sustained several bouts of depression. Looking back at his college

John Pierpont Morgan: The turn of the century in American, when E.L. Doctorow’s novel Ragtime is set, was a time marked by rapid technological developments and industrialization. These years also brought a heavy flood of immigrants as well as an increasingly urban American landscape. Technological advancements enabled increased efficiency and mass production. However, Doctorow clearly brings into question the consequences of this new technology for the average American worker. J.P. Morgan's discussion

be illustrated followed by examples of how their perspectives differ from each other. Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany in 1818. He came from a middle-class German-Jewish background. He attended first the University of Bonn, and later the University of Berlin. At the University of Berlin he was linked to the Young Hegelians. The Young Hegelians was a group that criticized

Robert Koch was born in 1843, His father was a mining engineer. In 1862 University of Göttingen to study medicine. Koch was influenced by Jacob Heine, the professor of anatomy. Koch took his M.D. degree in 1866, After getting his M.D.he went to Berlin for six months and was under the influence of Virchow. In 1867 Koch settled in hamburg as an assistant in the general of the hospital.He then went to Rackwitz, in the province of posen. He passed his district Medical Officer's Examination at Rackwitz

Sophie Germain, or in full Marie-Sophie Germain, was an extraordinary mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. She was born on April 1, 1776 in Paris, France to Ambroise-Francois Germain and Marie-Madeleine Gruguelu. After working extra hard to be a mathematician just because she was a woman, she received several awards, but even now people feel that she was not fully recognized for the many things she accomplished. The American Revolution began in 1776, the year she was born, and thirteen years

here. We will start off with science, science in many cases is stoic and homosexuality is not an exception, but regardless of the stoicism, the fact is you see it in nature, in a book published by Simon LeVay, a neuroscientist from the University of Harvard, Gottingen, and Cambridge, he states “about 10% of rams (male) refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams” (LeVay, 2010, pg 70-71). The next topic for examination is Evolution, or as some creationists may say the “theory

The Grimm Brothers Any good fairy tale may captivate a child’s (or adult’s) mind, but few could argue that, to be truly enchanting, a tale needs great illustrations. Two of the most influential fairy tale tellers in history were the German Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. Both very intelligent scholars, they knew how to spin a tale in the most effective way possible. However, they had plenty of work just dealing with the tales’ text, so in the area of illustration, they let their younger brother

merchant. His mother Ella Friedman an artist, was from a Jewish descendent. He is often called “the father of the atomic bomb” since he basically created it with the help of a few other men. He got his P.H.D at the age of 22 while attending other universities. He later married and had two children. As a kid he didn’t speak German but still managed to learn the language. He spent majority of his life ill. Whenever he was ill as a young child his mom always took very good care of him by having whatever

ago later, the population shrank by half.” This is, of course, when the Europeans arrived. Notwithstanding, the decline of the indigenous population did not last for a very long time and started to grow again. Dr. Lars Fehren-Schmitz of the Göttingen University stated “the cause of the decline can only be attributable to fast- and short-acting factors, for example, from diseases brought over by the Europeans in combination with war and famine.” This research justifies that the actions of the Spanish