There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.
The first comprehensive book on Shanghai Jews since the 1970s, Hochstadt incorporates research and historiographic developments of the last fifty years. Includes qualitative assessment of the period that will open up future avenues of research.
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Ernst Kitzinger, a 20th-Century art historian, was one of 2,500 men arrested in 1940 as ‘enemy aliens’ and deported from Britain to... Læs mere
Examines American-German rivalry at the beginning of the twentieth Century in the areas of technology and modernization, a previously neglected field
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Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and... Læs mere
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