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The First World War as a clash of cultures /

Contains essays examining the perceived tensions between British and German cultural traditions and beliefs before 1914 and how popular literature, public debate, cultural distinction, and war-time propaganda determined historical, political, and military events leading to war.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2006.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Fred Bridgham
  • 1. t Anglo-German conflict in popular fiction 1870-1914 / Iain Boyd Whyte
  • 2. Perversion and pestilence : D.H. Lawrence and the Germans / Helena Ragg-Kirkby
  • 3. "Und muss ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?" : Carl Sternheim's opposition to the First World War / Rhys W. Williams
  • 4. The Martians are coming! War, peace, love, and reflection in H.G. Wells's The war of the worlds and Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planeten / Ingo Cornils
  • 5. Nietzsche as hate-figure in Britain's Great War : "the execrable neech" / Nicholas Martin
  • 6. Darwinism and national identity, 1870-1918 / Gregory Moore
  • 7. Bernhardi and "the ideas of 1914" / Fred Bridgham
  • 8. Peacemaker and warmonger : Alexander Tille and the limits of Anglo-German intercultural transfer / Stefan Manz
  • 9. "In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer" : the German Celtic scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War / Andreas Huether
  • 10. Austrian (and some German) scholars of English and the First World War / Holger Klein.