Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

The historians‘ „eventful“ conception of temporality certainly posits that different historical times have, effectively, different rates of change—that history may be „accelerated“ by events. But it also posits that events transform or reconfigure social relations. The consequence is that they … Weiterlesen →

[H]istory and the social sciences crystalized out of a single field of discourse. It was only between the 1880s and World War I that sociology, history, political science, anthropology, geography, and economics emerged as the distinct and professionalized academic disciplines … Weiterlesen →

Maximilian Pichl : Wir machen uns Sorgen. Gesellschaftlich steht viel auf dem Spiel. Wir sehen Anzeichen dafür, dass in Deutschland die Situation immer mehr der ähnelt, die wir seit einiger Zeit zum Beispiel in Ungarn, den USA, Indien oder Italien … Weiterlesen →

Los Angeles Times: He learned that, as far back as 1948, American advisors, impressed by the popular support enjoyed by Communist Party leader Ho Chi Minh, had warned against an intervention in Vietnam. But U.S. involvement gradually escalated under three … Weiterlesen →