German Historians and England - A Study in Nineteenth-Century Views

Zusammenfassung Between the late eighteenth century and the eve of World War I! England assumed a special significance for the German intellectual elite. In the beginning! the preponderant admiration for England was intense enough to earn the name Anglomania! but by the turn of the twentieth century German intellectuals had developed an intensely hostile view of everything English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Prologue; 2. The eighteenth-century background; Part II. The German View of England in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Periods: 3. The challenge of the French Revolution; 4. Restoration versus constitutionalism and the German view of England; Part III. Anglo-German Fraternity - The Middle Decades: 5. England as older brother - constitutionalism and the British example; 6. England as first cousin - Ranke and Protestant-Germanic conservatism; 7. England as a sibling rival - outside views; 8. England as senescent uncle - Gneiss and the young National Liberals; Part IV. The End of Anglophilia: 9. Treitschke and the rejection of England; 10. Imperialism and Anglo-German estrangement; 11. Epilogue.

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• Authors: Charles E. McClelland, Charles E. McLelland, Charles E. (University of Pennsylvania) Mclelland, McLelland Charles E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780521083966
• ISBN: 978-0-521-08396-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, British & Irish history