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Autore |
Liulevicius Vejas G |
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The German myth of the East [[electronic resource] ] : 1800 to the present / / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-156769-8 |
0-19-954631-2 |
1-282-35464-7 |
9786612354649 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Studies in Modern European History |
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Soggetti |
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Public opinion - Germany - History |
National characteristics, German |
Electronic books. |
Germany Relations Europe, Eastern |
Europe, Eastern Relations Germany |
Europe, Eastern Foreign public opinion, German History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to |
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