tailieunhanh - Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View (1913)

Tham khảo sách 'germany and the germans from an american point of view (1913)', khoa học xã hội, lịch sử văn hoá phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Germany and the Germans by Price Collier 1 CHAPTER p INTRODUCTION Germany and the Germans by Price Collier The Project Gutenberg EBook of Germany and the Germans by Price Collier This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View 1913 Author Price Collier Release Date August 12 2006 EBook 19036 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMANY AND THE GERMANS Produced by Jeffrey Kraus-yao GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW Germany and the Germans by Price Collier BY PRICE COLLIER 2 CHARLES SCRIBNER S SONS NEW YORK 1913 Copyright 1913 by Charles Scribner s Sons Published May 1913 To MY WIFE KATHARINE whose deserving far outstrips my giving CONTENTS CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I. THE CRADLE OF MODERN GERMANY II. FREDERICK THE GREAT TO BISMARCK III. THE INDISCREET IV. GERMAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PRESS V. BERLIN VI. A LAND OF DAMNED PROFESSORS VII. THE DISTAFF SIDE VIII. OHNE ARMEE KEIN DEUTSCHLAND IX. GERMAN PROBLEMS X. FROM ENVY HATRED AND MALICE XI. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The first printed suggestion that America should be called America came from a German. Martin Waldseemuller of Freiburg in his Cosmographiae Introductio published in 1507 wrote I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named after Americus its discoverer a man of sagacious mind Amerige that is the land of Americus or America since both Europe and Asia derived their names from women. The first complete ship-load of Germans left Gravesend July the 24th 1683 and arrived in Philadelphia October the 6th 1683. They settled in Germantown or as it was then called on account of the poverty of the settlers Armentown.