Książka Inverted Mirror Michael E. Nolan

Inverted Mirror

Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "ar...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2004
strony
154
EAN
9781571816696
ISBN
1571816690
Enbook ID
04819378
Waga
340
Wymiary
158 x 236 x 14

Pełny opis

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, they waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other: distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which, in the years before World War I contributed to the growing hostility between them. 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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