I made two visits to the doctor’s this week. The first was on Monday when we settled down to read about the dominance of Bismark on the German scene, his use of expediency to unite the German territories excluding Austria, and about the Kulturkampf waged between the German state and [Read more…]
Now that the autumn term has begun I have had to shuffle my schedule and am no longer able to spend a leisurely Wednesday afternoon teaching Doctor M “German History in English” prior to an extended session of mahjong with him and his parents. However, by shifting his class to [Read more…]
In just 90 minutes we ran through virtually the whole gamut of 19th Century German Philosophy as presented by Steven Ozment in his A Mighty Fortress in a single 90 minute lesson… Obviously one could do little other than skate over the surface, but a few essential details were hammered [Read more…]
Today’s theme was the progress from the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the German revolution of 1848. As good old Wikipedia puts it, “Germany” at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 38 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation after the Congress of [Read more…]
At the Doc’s today we compared the merits of the French and German models of the Enlightenment, or perhaps I should say, we read part of a chapter of Steven Ozment’s A Mighty Fortress which showed us how the German model of enlightened despotism was superior to the French model [Read more…]
After a 90-minute “History in English” class during which Dr Mogami jr and I sat at the mahjong table in his father’s guest room and read through the chapter on the Thirty Year’s War in Steven Ozment’s book of German history, A Mighty Fortress, we tossed the study materials to [Read more…]
Towards the end of last year a couple of my longstanding “History in English” students had a bit of a post-class spat over the payment of the community centre room fee. The upshot was that the two ladies were “no longer able to continue to attend” the class, which left [Read more…]
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