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The Inverted Mirror

- Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914
Af: Michael Nolan Engelsk Hardback

The Inverted Mirror

- Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914
Af: Michael Nolan Engelsk Hardback
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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 discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.

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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 discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 154
ISBN-13: 9781571816696
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1571816690
Kategori: Europæisk historie
Udg. Dato: 1 nov 2004
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 158mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Oplagsdato: 1 nov 2004
Forfatter(e): Michael Nolan
Forfatter(e) Michael Nolan

Kategori Europæisk historie

ISBN-13 9781571816696

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 154

Udgave

Længde 14mm

Bredde 158mm

Højde 236mm

Udg. Dato 1 nov 2004

Oplagsdato 1 nov 2004

Forlag Berghahn Books, Incorporated

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