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Author Nolan, Michael E., author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in contemporary European history
Studies in contemporary European history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Franco-German Relations, 18981914: A Sketch; Chapter 2. Hereditary Enemies? The Once and Future War; Chapter 3. Production and Reproduction: Economy, Fertility, and Consumption; Chapter 4. The Elusive Alsatian; Chapter 5. Shades of Opinion: The Political Spectrum Conclusion Bibliography; Index
Summary 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.
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Subject National characteristics, French.
National characteristics, French.
National characteristics, German.
National characteristics, German.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
World War (1914-1918)
France -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
France.
International relations.
Germany.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- France.
Germany -- Foreign public opinion, French -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject 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.
Chronological Term 1871-1918
Subject French.
French.
Germans.
Germans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Diplomatic relations.
Public opinion, French.
Public opinion, German.
War -- Causes.
Chronological Term 1870-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Nolan, Michael E. Inverted mirror : mythologizing the enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. New York : Berghahn Books, 2005 ix, 141 ; 23 cm Studies in contemporary European history 9781571816696 (DLC) 10882857
ISBN 9781782386605 (electronic book)
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