A stranger in Paris; Germany's role in republican France, 1870-1940.1845451252 A stranger in Paris; Germany's role in republican France, 1870-1940. Mitchell, Allan. Berghahn Books 2006 95 pages $19.95 Paperback DC59 Mitchell, formerly of Smith College and the U. of California, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , maintains the nature of the relationship between France and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries means an autonomous national history of France The History of France has been divided into a series of separate historical articles navigable through the list to the right. The chronological era articles (highlighted in blue) address broad French historical, cultural and sociological developments. is not possible. He argues that the Franco-Prussian War Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, 1870–71, conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism. and its aftereffects aftereffects after npl → Nachwirkungen pl made the combined France and Germany the heartland of Europe, despite the intrusions of the small and great wars between them and their allies up to 1940, and gives as evidence the parallels in compromised governance, volunteerist public ethics, problematic demography, struggling or stagnant economies, sexism, education for the elite, xenophobia Xenophobia Boxer Rebellion Chinese rising aimed at ousting foreign interlopers (1900). [Chinese Hist. , and a sense of defeat even before the cannons, whether of war or new cultural and social ideas, fired. The final blow came when the French Army, organized along old German rules, met the new army of Hitler. The suggested readings are particularly interesting. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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