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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822213903321

Autore

Nolan Michael E.

Titolo

The inverted mirror : mythologizing the enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914 / / Michael E. Nolan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2005

ISBN

1-84545-301-8

1-78238-660-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary European history

Disciplina

303.48

303.48/243044/09041

303.4824304409041

Soggetti

National characteristics, French

National characteristics, German

World War, 1914-1918 - Causes

France Foreign relations Germany

Germany Foreign relations France

Germany Foreign public opinion, French History 20th century

France Foreign public opinion, German History 20th century

France Foreign relations 20th century

Germany Foreign relations 20th century

France History Third Republic, 1870-1940

Germany History 1871-1918

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.

Nota di contenuto

Series Page; Title Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS, 1898-1914: A SKETCH; Chapter Two: HEREDITARY ENEMIES? THE ONCE AND FUTURE WAR; Chapter Three: PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION: ECONOMY, FERTILITY, AND CONSUMPTION; Chapter Four: THE ELUSIVE ALSATIAN; Chapter Five: SHADES OF OPINION: THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as ""arch enemies."" And yet, for well



over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility between the two countries in the years before the First World War. Most remarkably, as the author discovere