The innovative economics professor Bernhard Harms established and set on an international stage the renowned Kiel Institute for World Economics. In her biography of this academically entrepreneurial man of action, Lisa Eiling vividly portrays how, alongside financial aid from the armaments industry during the First World War, Harms' imperialist worldview, particular conception of heroic masculinity, and his practice-orientated understanding of research further aided his efforts.
The innovative economics professor Bernhard Harms established and set on an international stage the renowned Kiel Institute for World Economics. In her biography of this academically entrepreneurial man of action, Lisa Eiling vividly portrays how, alongside financial aid from the armaments industry during the First World War, Harms' imperialist worldview, particular conception of heroic masculinity, and his practice-orientated understanding of research further aided his efforts.
Lisa Eiling
Geboren 1986; Studium der Geschichte und Klassischen Philologie in Münster, Bochum und Gießen; Mitarbeiterin der Leibniz-Preis Arbeitsgruppe 'Geschichte und Theorie des globalen Kapitalismus' bei Friedrich Lenger an der Universität Gießen; freiberufliche Historikerin in Berlin und Frankfurt am Main.
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