The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany 1898-1914

by Michael E. Nolan

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816690
• ISBN13: 9781571816696
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"