| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
admiration, antagonism & ambivalence, 1860-1914 |
| Author: |
ScullyRichard., |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Series: |
Britain and the world |
| Subject: |
HISTORY / Europe / Germany - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137283467 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
"British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914" is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany and the Germans in the key period before the First World War. Representing a recent about-face in scholarly appreciations of Anglo-German relations, Richard Scully reassesses the assumption that the relationship in the lead up to 1914 was increasingly fraught and reveals a more complex picture: that a longstanding sense of kinship felt by Britons for Germany and the Germans persisted right up to the outbreak of war, even surviving times of acute diplomatic tension. This innovative re-examination incorporates the reading of British images of Germany in maps, travel literature, fiction and political cartoons: forms which have never before been appreciated for the light they shed on this fascinating period of history. |
| ISBN: |
9781137283467electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137283467electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: The Beginnings Mapping Germany, 1860-1914 From "Geographical Expression" to German Empire "North Sea" or "German Ocean"? : Britain and Germany in the Wider World A "Pink Link" : Race, Religion and the Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry War and the Severing of the "Pink Link" Part II. Travelling to Germany, 1860-1914 : A Guidebook Britain and Baedeker's Germany The Rhine, the Spas, and Beyond : in War and Peace Business as Usual : the 1880s and 1890s The Last of the Summer Holidays : Twentieth Century Travel Part III. Models and Monsters : English Literature and the Idea of Germany Learned, Indefatigable, Deep-thinking Germany... The German Invasion of Britain in 1872 and "What Beclme of the Invaders" Two Georges and Two Germanies : Gissing & Meredith Commence Debate Looking Into the Abyss.. Part IV. Punch, Judy and German Michael : Cartoons of Germany "Wilhelm in Wonderland" : Germany in the Wars of Unification Satiated and Satisfied : Bismarckian Germany "Dropping the Pilot" : Wilhelm II and Weltpolitik The Coming of the Horrible Hun Conclusions. |