The German myth of the East [[electronic resource] ] : 1800 to the present / / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
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| Autore: |
Liulevicius Vejas G
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| Titolo: |
The German myth of the East [[electronic resource] ] : 1800 to the present / / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/243047 |
| Soggetto topico: | Public opinion - Germany - History |
| National characteristics, German | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Germany Relations Europe, Eastern |
| Europe, Eastern Relations Germany | |
| Europe, Eastern Foreign public opinion, German History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The German myth of the East |
| ISBN: | 0-19-156769-8 |
| 0-19-954631-2 | |
| 1-282-35464-7 | |
| 9786612354649 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465579803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Oxford Studies in Modern European History