British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860–1914

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction — ‘The Beginnings’....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
From Geographical Expression to German Empire....Pages 11-20
‘North Sea’ or ‘German Ocean’? Britain and Germany in the Wider World....Pages 21-26
A ‘Pink Link’ — Race, Religion and the Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry....Pages 27-36
War and the Severing of the ‘Pink Link’....Pages 37-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Britain and Baedeker’s Germany....Pages 45-52
The Rhine, the Spas, and Beyond; in War and Peace....Pages 53-61
Business as Usual: The 1880s and 1890s....Pages 62-71
The Last of the Summer Holidays — Twentieth Century Travel....Pages 72-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Learned, Indefatigable, Deep-Thinking Germany....Pages 85-92
The German Invasion of Britain in 1872 and ‘What Became of the Invaders’....Pages 93-103
Two Georges and Two Germanies: Gissing and Meredith Commence Debate....Pages 104-119
Looking into the Abyss?....Pages 120-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
‘Wilhelm in Wonderland’ — Germany in the Wars of Unification....Pages 133-183
Satiated and Satisfied? Bismarckian Germany....Pages 184-212
‘Dropping the Pilot’ — Kaiser Wilhelm II and the New Course....Pages 213-260
The Coming of the ‘Horrible Hun’....Pages 261-315
Conclusions....Pages 316-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-384