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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465579803321

Autore

Liulevicius Vejas G

Titolo

The German myth of the East [[electronic resource] ] : 1800 to the present / / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-156769-8

0-19-954631-2

1-282-35464-7

9786612354649

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Modern European History

Disciplina

303.48/243047

Soggetti

Public opinion - Germany - History

National characteristics, German

Electronic books.

Germany Relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Relations Germany

Europe, Eastern Foreign public opinion, German History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; 1. Introduction; 2. Older Legacies Before 1800; 3. Influences of Enlightenment and Romanticism, 1800-1820s; 4. Fusing the Myth, 1830-1871; 5. Age of Empires, 1871-1914; 6. The First World War and its Aftermath, 1914-1933; 7. Nazi Visions of the East; 8. Nightmare of the Advancing East, 1943-1955; 9. From the Cold War to the Present; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American



myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to