Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The Hun speech (1900) -- Armenia (1900) -- Missionaries (1901) -- A Chinese letter about the war (1901) -- Chinese letters (1901) -- Contemporary civilization (Polish students) (1901) -- The women of Poland (Polish students) (1901) -- Macedonia (1902) -- Armenia and Europe (1902) -- The Georgian people (1903) -- The agony of a people and utopias (Jews) (1903) -- Transvaal (1903) -- Mano Negra (Spanish workers) (1903) -- Finland (1904) -- To the students of Germany (1904) -- The Ruthenians (1904) -- The rights and the duties of the weaker (1905) -- The Aryan race (1905) -- To the schoolchildren in Russian Poland (1905) -- The future of Russian Poland (1905) -- Zionism (1905) -- The Jews in Finland (1905) -- The Fourth Partition of Poland (1909) -- Race theories (1912) -- Conditions in Russian Poland (1914) -- Poland (1915) -- The great era (WWI displaced peoples) (1915) -- The great nations' concern for the small (1915) -- A Polish evening in Copenhagen (1916) -- An appeal (1916) -- From Response to Mr. William Archer (1916) -- Persia (1916) -- The Armenians (1917) -- Imperialism (1922) -- Europe now (Nationalism) (1925)
Summary:
"Georg Brandes was called the 'Father of the Modern Breakthrough,' a nickname he gained from his lectures critical of the romanticism movement in literature. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker at the turn of the twentieth century, his works often considered intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's essays and speeches that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By putting these works into context, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of the human rights movement"-- Provided by publisher.
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