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The inverted mirror : mythologizing the enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2005.
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| Colección: | Studies in contemporary European history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781782386605 1782386602 1845453018 9781845453015 |