Charles E. McLelland, Charles E. McClelland

The German Historians and England

A Study in Nineteenth-Century Views

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between the late eighteenth century and the eve of World War I, England assumed a special significance for the German intellectual elite.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521083966
• ISBN-10: 0521083966
• Artikelnr.: 24852217

Inhaltsangabe

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.