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" In Germany at the end of the First World War agricultural land was owned prevailingly by powerful squires in the east and by peasants in the south and west, with only a few large estates scattered in the center, south, and west. "
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" Their viewpoints of towards the world were as varied as their fortunes-there was never such a quarrelsome group of thinkers. "
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868—August 27, 1963) was an American historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist, widely recognized for his historiography on Reconstruction, writings on black subjectivity, and involvement in the Pan-Africanist movement. He was known for his emphasis on the importance of economic, not solely political, justice in combating racial inequality, […]
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One of the most influential members of the Graduate Faculty of the 1960s and 1970s, Robert Heilbroner was born in New York City to a wealthy German Jewish family that owned menswear stores. He studied literature, philosophy and economics at Harvard University and graduated in 1940 summa cum laude. During World War II, he was […]
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There is an ongoing history of efforts to build bridges between labor and management at the New School that lasted from 1919 through the 1970s. Courses on labor and management were initially offered in the New School’s first full academic year (1919-20): Modern Trade Unionism by Robert Bruère and Administration of Human Relations in Industry by H.C. Metcalf. […]
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Hans Staudinger was a Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Hans Staudinger, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives about Hans Staudinger, see the Graduate Faculty of […]
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Frieda Wunderlich (b. Berlin, November 8, 1894—d. East Orange, NJ, December 9, 1965) was the only woman in the original group of scholars that formed the University-in- Exile at The New School in 1933. Prior to emigration, she held numerous positions in Germany, many of public political importance. After receiving her doctorate from the University […]
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" In what has been said of the evolution of the vicarious leisure class and its differentiation from the general body of the working classes... "
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" Wars are the products of the civilization in which they are waged. "
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" As long as friends of democracy, throughout the world, are not all killed or confined to Hitler’s concentration camps, there is one thing they cannot afford. They cannot afford to believe in his ultimate and lasting victory. "