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(ANTISEMITICA). CHAMBERLAIN, HOUSTON STEWART. Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts [“The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century.”] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes (intended third volume never published). Ex-libris: Bohuslav Blazek. pp. xvi, 1031. Contemporary uniform half-roan marbled boards, rubbed. Tall 4to. Munich, F. Bruckmann, 1899. “Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927) was a British-German who successfully promoted German ethno-nationalism, antisemitism, and scientific racism. This, his best-known book, the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy. The work is a pseudo-scientific ”racial history” of humanity from the emergence of the first civilizations in the ancient Near East to the year 1800. It argues that all of the ”foundations” of the 19th century, which saw huge economic, scientific and technological advances in the West, were the work of the ”Aryan race”. Die Grundlagen was a seminal work in German nationalism. Aided by Chamberlain's association with the Wagner circle, its ideas of Aryan supremacy and struggle against Jewish influence spread widely across the German state at the beginning of the century. If it did not form the framework of later Nazi ideology, at the very least it provided its adherents with a seeming intellectual justification.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain.