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As mineral collecting and classifying various rock types constituted an important cultural and scientific practice of enlightened societies in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the paper analyses the sometimes extremely different spatial dimensions the mineral collections embodied, amongst which the exhibits mediated. It shows how the development of scientific mineralogy at the end of the eighteenth century not only accentuated universally-scientific claims and classifications, but was simultaneously associated with the utilitarian goals of economic development of the individual states and territories. In this context, mineral collections became an important tool of state knowledge through which mining officials as well as private collectors tried to exhibit their "patriotic" vision of economic development and deliver a public picture of the natural resources of their respective country. However, these scientific and political orders present in most contemporary collections did not destroy a classical vision which highlighted in the tradition of the older Wunderkammer the most spectacular and the valuable objects of the exhibitions.

"As mineral collecting and classifying various rock types constituted an important cultural and scientific practice of enlightened societies in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the paper analyses the sometimes extremely different spatial dimensions the mineral collections embodied, amongst which the exhibits mediated. It shows how the development of scientific mineralogy at the end of the eighteenth century not only accentuated universally-scientific claims and classifications, but was simultaneously associated with the utilitarian goals of economic development of the individual states and territories. In this context, mineral collections became an important tool of state knowledge through which mining officials as well as private collectors tried to exhibit their "patriotic" vision of economic development and deliver a public picture of the natural resources of their respective country. However, these scientific and political orders present in most contemporary collections did not destroy a classical vision which highlighted in the tradition of the older Wunderkammer the most spectacular and the valuable objects of the exhibitions." (author's abstract)

Inhis poem "Our Military!" published in 1919, Kurt Tucholsky describes the great enthusiasm that he, or rather his pseudonym Kaspar Hauser, felt as a boy before World War II for the sis–boom–bah of martial music when the soldiers marched by. Only when he was a soldier himself "in the Russian wind" of the First World War were the young man's eyes opened to the barbarity, desperation, and despair of war and the actual power relations in the army. While the poem's antimilitaristic intentions are readily apparent, Tucholsky nevertheless also managed to capture a view widely held during the interwar years: that before 1914 there still existed in the population an unbroken enthusiasm for the army and its colorful displays, but that the experience during the war of death on such a massive scale put an end to it. Walter Rathenau echoed precisely these sentiments in his 1919 treatiseDer Kaiser: Eine Betrachtung, seeing the prewar society of the German Empire as a "militarily-drilled mass" that sought "to display their acquired military arts in grand public spectacles." The stereotypical image of a bygone prewar era of military glory and pageantry received a more popular, less "critical" treatment in the 1934 film "Frühjahrsparade," a musical that evoked "the good old days" of the Habsburg Empire and the k. u. k. army, and not least the passion of women for "the man in uniform."

In this article, the author describes the development and expansion of a spontaneous and essentially unpolitical, popular ,military folklore' in Germany and France following the war of 1870-71. Two typical instances of this phenomenon are used to illustrate the argument: military festivals, and the activities of civil associations which enjoyed close links with the military. Despite the generally favourable attitude of state officials towards the social and cultural forms taken by the popular appropriation of military symbols and practices, the respective social elites in Germany and France displayed a deep- rooted hostility to the phenomenon. The folkloristic character of this popular militarism, particularly its concentration on naive and colourful representations of a peacetime army, was a decisive factor in the dissemination of a widespread military consciousness, precisely because of its capacity for repressing the brutal reality of warfare. ; In this article, the author describes the development and expansion of a spontaneous and essentially unpolitical, popular ,military folklore' in Germany and France following the war of 1870-71. Two typical instances of this phenomenon are used to illustrate the argument: military festivals, and the activities of civil associations which enjoyed close links with the military. Despite the generally favourable attitude of state officials towards the social and cultural forms taken by the popular appropriation of military symbols and practices, the respective social elites in Germany and France displayed a deep- rooted hostility to the phenomenon. The folkloristic character of this popular militarism, particularly its concentration on naive and colourful representations of a peacetime army, was a decisive factor in the dissemination of a widespread military consciousness, precisely because of its capacity for repressing the brutal reality of warfare.

von Jakob Vogel ; Book review (H-Net) ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Diss. 97.1997