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“We understand fashion as both material culture and as symbolic system (Kawamura, 2005). It is a commercial industry producing and selling material commodities; a socio-cultural force bound up with the dynamics of modernity and post-modernity; and”
― Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists
― Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists
“He created, in the words of historian Hans Rosenberg, “a first-rate army which had to be supported by a country which was third-rate in terms of manpower, natural wealth, capital supply, and economic skills.”
― Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
― Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
“Some 81 percent of all Prussian civil servants had been party members, half having joined before 1933.34 The American, British, and French occupation authorities sought to de-Nazify the German government by holding war crimes trials for senior leaders at Nuremburg, and then by purging individuals from the civil service. But as the new Federal Republic was formed in 1949 and pressure mounted to put in place a competent government that could anchor the new NATO alliance against the Soviet Union, large numbers of purged officials were reinstated. A federal law passed in 1951 granted all regular civil servants, including those with Nazi backgrounds and those expelled by East Germany, a right to reinstatement.35 Of the fifty-three thousand civil servants initially purged, only about one thousand remained permanently excluded”
― Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
― Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
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