History 1265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Transcendentalism, Intrepidity, Meiji Period
28 Sep 2016
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Lecture 24: germany in the world, 1500-2000: the long view. 1500: good year to start first time we start to hear references to germany. Cochlaeus: nuremberg is right at the center of the world. Germany is a contact zone, a middle zone. Germans migrated and traded in every direction. Families like the fuggers had a global reach. Johannes kepler, a successor to a dane (tycho brahe), corresponded with people all over europe. Thirty years war the learned became even more mobile. War has an extraordinary effect in spreading knowledge and learning. Prussian samuel hartley (described as the greatest information gatherer in europe) came to run the royal. Wrong to think of early modern society as immobile it was mobile in different ways from our society. German role in the making of the new world. German role was more considerable than one might think. No german empire so it would be easier to ignore.
