Robert Seidel, Author at Areo

The incident in question took place in 1820s Germany—amid the stuffy atmosphere that dominated life there between the defeat of Napoleon and the failed democratic uprisings of 1848, after the…

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History

The Empire That Wasn’t: The German Hanse

28/01/2022
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Robert Seidel

More than fifty years after its first publication—and now in its sixth (posthumous) edition—The German Hansa, by the French historian Philippe Dollinger, remains a classic. Written in a scholarly yet…

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Culture & Media
Review

A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

12/04/2021
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Robert Seidel

Fukuzawa Yukichi was born in 1835. When he was a young man, Japan was still a feudal society: static, rigid and almost completely isolated from the outside world, wanting nothing…

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Robert Seidel

The Flipside of Intersectionality: Heinrich Heine and the Platen Affair

The Empire That Wasn’t: The German Hanse

A Life of Cultural Appropriation: “The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi”

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