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30.3.19
Adam Tooze · Is this the end of the American century?: America Pivots · LRB 4 April 2019
Adam Tooze · Is this the end of the American century?: America Pivots · LRB 4 April 2019: On 13 October 1806 a young German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, had an encounter with world history. En route to their annihilation of the Prussian forces 24 hours later, Napoleon and his army were marching through the East German university town of Jena. Hegel couldn’t . . .
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