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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792263803321

Autore

Hewitson Mark

Titolo

National identity and political thought in Germany : Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914 / / Mark Hewitson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-4294-5808-9

1-280-44577-7

0-19-151342-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 288 pages)

Collana

Oxford historical monographs

Disciplina

320.943

327.43044

Soggetti

Nationalism - France - History - 19th century

Nationalism - Germany - History - 19th century

Public opinion - Germany - History - 19th century

France Foreign public opinion, German History 19th century

France Foreign relations Germany

France Politics and government 1870-1940

Germany Foreign relations France

Germany Politics and government 1871-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; 1. INTRODUCTION: GERMANY AND THE FRENCH NATION; 1. National Comparison in the Modern Age; 2. Three Types of French Nation; 3. German Depictions of France; 4. Plan of the Book; 2. THE GERMAN RECHTSSTAAT AND THE FRENCH POLITICAL STATE; 1. Politics and the State; 2. Law, Legality, and Justice; 3. The Dreyfus Affair; 3. THE MERGER OF EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COMPETENCIES; 1. President, Senate, and Assembly; 2. Party and Faction; 3. Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization; 4. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AND THE SPECTRE OF DICTATORSHIP; 1. Equality, Individualism, and Control

2. Competence and Corruption; 3. Caesarism and the Danger of



Collapse; 4. Republic faute de mieux; 5. GERMAN REJECTION OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY REPUBLIC; 1. Diplomats and Statesmen; 2. Conservatives; 3. The Centre Party; 4. The SPD; 5. Liberals; 6. CONCLUSION: POLITICS AND THE GERMAN NATION-STATE; 1. German Perceptions of France's Political Decline; 2. Parliamentarism and Constitutionalism; 3. Lawyers, Parties, and Political Regimes; 4. National Comparison and Constitutional Crisis; 5. Political Thought and National Identity; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. By analysing Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism. - ;This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War.