Name: Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World war i (en Inglés)
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Author: Thomas Weber
ISBN: 9780804700146

portada Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World war i (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Thomas Weber

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

338

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

0804700141

ISBN13

9780804700146

Categorías

Educación superior

Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in Britain and Germany Before World war i (en Inglés)

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Winner of the 2008 Duke d'Arenberg History Prize for the best book of a general nature, intended for a wide public, on the history and culture of the European continent. At once a book about Oxford and Heidelberg universities and about the character of European society on the eve of World War I, Our Friend "The Enemy" challenges the idea that pre-1914 Europe was bound to collapse. Weber brings Britain and Germany's preeminent universities and playgrounds for political and social elites back to life to reconsider whether any truth is left in the old contrast between British liberalism and German illiberalism. Contesting the idea that fundamental Anglo-German differences existed, he also questions new interpretations that use a cultural history brush to paint pre-1914 Britain in just as gloomy a light as Imperial Germany. Rather, he argues that militarist nationalism and European transnationalism were not mutually exclusive concepts, that reform usually triumphed over stasis, and that prewar Europe was more stable than commonly argued. Finally, he demonstrates that the belief that Europeans were eagerly awaiting a cataclysmic remaking of the world they were inhabiting is a result of a tendency to read pre-1914 history backwards as the prehistory of the two world wars.