HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Dreyfus Affair, New Imperialism
6 Feb 2017
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Famous as a romantic musician: has a political impact -> tremendous interest in human origins, traditions, and the family of people (cid:498)you feel german because your family blood is german(cid:499) Loyalty to german people even if there is no germany just yet. Engraving of anti-semitic riots in paris during the dreyfus affair (late 1980s: extreme conservative nationalists held that only ethnically/racially pure people were really citizens. passing military secrets to the germans. A 19th century racial typology: illustrations like this were often used to truly belonging to the nation: although anti-semitism was not new, jews in europe were this increasingly targeted by conservative nationalists in the late 19th. Century for being (cid:498)racial(cid:499) rather than religious outsiders, and thus not: french army officer jewish artillery captain falsely convicted of demonstrate the supposedly fundamental differences between (cid:494)races(cid:495) of people, based usually on observes physical characteristic.
