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View article: Central European Pasts
Central European Pasts Open
Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective …
View article: Between Village, Utopian Settlement, and Garden City
Between Village, Utopian Settlement, and Garden City Open
Eisenheim was founded in 1844 near Oberhausen in the Ruhr by the mining company Gutehoffnungshütte as one of the earliest company housing projects in Germany. Like the later “colonies” by Krupp, BASF, or Farbwerke Höchst, the settlement wa…