Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place. German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930
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Abstract
Blackbourn, David, and James Retallack, eds. Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place. German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 280 pp. $65.00 hardcover. This well-edited volume, divided into four parts, contains ten essays selected from the international conference on Localism, Landscape, and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany, held at the University of Toronto in May 2005. An excellent thirty-page editors' introduction, grounded in theories of place, culture, and identity, provides a framework for the themes addressed in the essays that follow. Part I, Placing Moving Cultures, contains three essays that have in common surprising new perspectives on German culture. Celia Applegate's Music in Place, the keynote address at the conference, shows the close connections between location and music for German 19th-century composers (Wagner, Brahms, Liszt) and the difficulty music historians have had in taking into account the importance of place in their histories of German music. Jennifer Jenkins's Heimat Art, Modernism, Modernity looks at the northern German artists' colony Worpswede, in particular at one of its founding members, Heinrich Vogeler, and shows how during the last decades before World War I, German Heimatkunst included-contrary to many an art historian's claim -not only local and traditional elements, but also modern and even avant-garde ones. James Retallack's 'Native Son': Julian Hawthorne's Saxon Studies looks at the interplay between nation and province. In 1876, Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), the thirtyyear-old son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, published his 452-page Saxon Studies, an often crudely stereotyping and misanthropic work. Despite Henry James's prediction, Hawthorne later in life did not regret having published this tome. Indeed, he was forever proud of the condemnation it elicited in Dresden, from Henry James, and from the German emperor himself. Reading between the misanthropic lines of Saxon Studies, Retallack shows us a proud Saxony struggling with the Wilhelmine authorities who made claims on it after 1871. Part II, Political Cultures, is made up of two essays on localism in a changing political landscape. By comparing local branches of various national organizations such as veterans associations from 1871 to 1914, Thomas Kuhne shows how center-periphery tensions and local politics shaped German democratic movements in different German states. Eric Kurlander describes the interplay between particularism and progressive politics in the two borderland regions of the Alsace and Schleswig-Holstein. Interestingly, the same volkisch ideology that united liberals and conservatives close to the Danish border alienated liberals, clericals, and socialists in the Alsace. …
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".