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Europe in Crisis 1880 1914
prof. Gonzalo Sanchez
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History
Undergraduate 3
10/14/2012

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Herbert Spencer
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English philosopher, biologist, political theorist of the Victorian era; developed the conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human minda and the society
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John Stuart Mill
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English philosopher, political economist; conception of liberty that justified the freedom of the individual; utilitarian; liberal politician
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Otto von Bismarck
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federal Chancellor of Germany; created Reich; effective in foreing politics; extremely important for Germany's unification
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Auguste Morel
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French physician born in Vienna; influential psychiatrist; developed the theory of social degeneration through heredity but also addictions; Treatise on degeneration 1857
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Eduard Lockroy
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construction of Eiffel Tower in 1889
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Rothschild
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influential German banking family that established the eponymous financial services firm
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Bleichroder
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German investment banker from Berlin
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Cecil Rhodes
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mining magnate from South Africa; politician; Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
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Heinrich Friedjung
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Austrian historian and journalist; fired from university for cirticizing the government;  German nationalist
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Camillo Sitte
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Austrian architect and urban planner; criticized 19th c architecture and urban planning; valued ancient planning
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Wagner
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Austrian architect, founder of modern european architectire; outlined the idea of functionalism; necessity as a sole drive in art
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Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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Austro-german psychiatrist who wrote Psychopatia Sexualis; procreation as the only reason for sexual drive and intercourse
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Max Nordau
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Hungarian zionist leader; wrote Degeneration against the degenerate art of the century and outcomes of social phenomenona of the period
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James Cantlie
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Scottish physician, known as a pioneer or first aid
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Charles Masterman
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British politican of the liberal party; The Condition of England that focused on the working class
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Gustave le Bon
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introduced new urban psychology and wrote works about crowd psychology; control of French crowds by wrongdoers in 19c; chemical reaction comparison in crowd psychology
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Simmel
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sociologist; social phenomenon being composed of content and form
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Durkheim
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sociologist, who identified two methods of social integration; mechanical thus sentimental; organic thus interdependent
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Karl Luger
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leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party; transformed Vienna into a modern city; anti-semite
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Thosten Veblen
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Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899 author; American economist and sociologist; work against the conspicuous consumption; luxury goods for public display bad for economy
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Kondratiev
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inventor of the economic wave of sinusoidal shape; 50 years average
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Josef Schumpeter
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invented creative destruction; arising of a new development out of the destruction of the other one
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Meline
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introduced economic tariff in France in 1892; effort of wealthy people; increase profit
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McKinley
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American protectionist; introduced tariffs in 1890 to raise the imports to almost 50% in duty amount to protect domestic market
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Thomas S. Kuhn
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author of paradigm shift; change of the basic assumption in the light of new scientific discoveries
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James Clerk Maxwell
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responsible for development of electrodynamics and optics; formulated the electromagnetic theory
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Thomas Edison
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American inventor of the light bulb
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Max Planck
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author of the quantum theory dealing with microscopic level physics
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Marconi
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Italian inventor; father of long distance radio transmission; invented telegraph
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Heinrich Rudoplf Hertz
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invented the SI unit of frequenzy; German
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Maria Sklodowska Curie
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Polish chemist; Nobel Prize winner in physics (1903) and chemistry (1911); discovered Uranium, Polonium, Radium 
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Emil du Bois-Rexmond
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German physician, who discovered action potential; experimental biology
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Ludwig Buchner
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German philosopher; physiologist; physician; scientific materialism
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Ernst Haeckel
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eminent German biologist who discovered and described thousands of species; discovered phylum, protista and ecology
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Stephen Kern
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American writer who about the changes in technology and culture in between 1880 1914; The Culture of Time and Space; comprehension of time and space
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Martial Bourdin
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French anarchist; died in a premature explosion of his attack on the Royal Observatory
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Albert Einstein
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German born physicist who developed the theory of relativity and mass energy equivalence; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921
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Henri Poincare
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French mathematician who was a polymath; father of topology; chaos theory
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Hermann Minkowski
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mathematician who developed the geometry of numbers; used geometry to solve problems in number theory like theory of relativity 
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Pierre de Coubertin
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founder of the International Olympic Committee in 1894; Olympics in 1896 in Athens organized by him
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Robert Bayden Powell
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Lieutenant-General in British army and the founder of the scout movement in 1907; Boy Scouts
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Ottmar Mergenthaler
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modern Gutenberg; German; linotype in 1886
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Anderson
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inventor of the imagined communities; the way our social structures are constructed
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Sarah Grand
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author of the new woman; British feminist writer and activist; a new ideal of educated woman that should emerge in a male dominated society
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Octave Uzanne
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French bibliophile, who wrote La Femme a Paris treating about the model of the modern woman
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Victor and Paul Margueritte
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French novelists born in Algeria who wrote the novel La Femme Nouvelle about the idea of a new woman
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Marcel Prevost
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French author who wrote Les Vierges Fortes in 1900; focused on women education and suffrage in France
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Albert Cim
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French author who wrote Emancipees which treated about women emancipation
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Olive Schreiner
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South African author (woman) highly popular for the sotry of an african farm in 1883; discussed agnosticism, existential independence and women's professional aspirations as individuals
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Jane Misme
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French feminist journalist; took over La Fronde, a French feminist magazine which was run entirely by a female team and ended in 1905
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Camille See
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French advocate for women's education; See Laws in 1880 established education for girls
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Grant Allen
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Plain Words on the Woman Question; Canadian science writer; upholder of the theory of evolution 
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Jules Ferry
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advocate of education in France; started the system of free education in France in 1881
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Ferdinand Buisson
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French pacifist and left liberal politican; president of the human right league from 1914 to 1926; helped to create the system of education; Dictionary of Pedagogy was edited by him
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Anna Maria Mozzoni
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Italian feminist activist; key figure in Italian suffrage; founded the Women's Movement and presented a petition to the parliament in 1878
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Marianne Hainisch
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founder and leader of the Austrian female movement; International council of women
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Helene Lange
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pedagogue and feminist; represents the women's movement in Germany; filed a petition in 1887 that criticized ways of teaching women
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