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Circulation in Nineteenth-Century France: Blood, Water, and Railroads
The term "circulation" was widely used in French urban planning from the 1850s onwards to designate the flow of people, goods, information, traffic, c
Documenting the World
Archives composed of photographs or film span the scope of human history: these are archives as intimate as the family shoebox and as vast as the worl
Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac
Dream Watchers. A History of Modern Dream Research
This project analyzed the rise of the scientific study of dreams in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Within a new scientific culture of objectivi
Publications, Mayer, A. (2013). Sites of the Unconscious. Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., Funding Institutions, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung
Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
This project investigated the changing valuation of complexity in nature and culture in Germany and the United States throughout the twentieth century
Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches to an Old Topic
In this research project, Mona Friedrich studied the rise of organized record-keeping from roughly 1450 to 1789. It was only during this period that a
Comets and Wondrous Signs in the Sky: Natural History and Religious Polemic in Early Modern France and Germany
This project took as a starting point the well-known comet of 1556, often called the Charles V comet after Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who abdicated
Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus
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Das auf fünf Jahre (1999-2004) angelegte Forschungsprogramm der MPG-Präsidentenkommission hatte zur Aufgabe, den Beitrag der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft und ihrer Wissenschaftler zum Nationalsozialismus zu untersuchen. Diese Website wird nicht mehr aktualisiert (in Englisch).
History of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft
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This five-year-research program of the MPG President's commission aimed to research the contribution of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft and its scientists to the National Socialism. This website is no longer maintained.
Musawwarat Graffiti Archive
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Diese digitale Forschungsbibliothek enthält die Zeichnungen der Ausgrabungsstätte in Musawwarat/Sudan (in Englisch).