“This is a very useful anthology of essays by Georg Brandes on the rights of oppressed peoples, written for various occasions over the last three decades of his life. The selection of the essays is in itself an accomplishment, as no such compilation, highlighting Brandes’s contribution to the development of a modern understanding of human rights, exists in other languages.”
—Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Roskilde University
“Many of the essays are very valuable for ‘eye witnessing’ the conflicts in Europe that were critical in shaping the continent for the rest of the century. These issues are still with us—which makes the historical value of the book very high indeed.”
—Bård Anders Andreassen, University of Oslo
“Banks’s masterful translation of selected essays and published speeches illuminates a remarkable facet of Georg Brandes’s productivity in the first quarter of the twentieth century. . . . An engrossing and sobering view into the cultural and political conflicts of the early twentieth century—conflicts that still, a century later, haunt the European continent. . . . An auspicious publication and a valuable companion to anyone interested in the culture and politics of the early twentieth century.”—Scandinavian Studies