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online academic publishing platform. The platform publishes articles and reviews in the
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. ''Perspectivia.net'' operates as part of the German ''
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*Six German Historical Institutes
* German F ...
– German Humanities Institutes Abroad'' (Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland), which is financially supported by the
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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s and esteemed scholars invited by them. The organization publishes
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and
retro-digitized texts which are then made available to the general public on its website. All material is published according to the
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Arts and media
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''Perspectivia.net'' started as an independent, government-subsidized project in 2007. It officially launched its online publication website in 2008. Since 2018, the publication server is based on
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.
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Max Weber Foundation
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