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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2008 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. This collection of essays sheds new light on Anglo-German relations during the turbulent decades before the outbreak of the Great War. Written by leading historians, the book demonstrates that Anglo-German relations before 1914 were characterized not only by rivalry and antagonism, but also by a remarkable degree of mutual admiration and cultural cross-fertilization. Contents: List of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction by DOMINIK GEPPERT and ROBERT GERWARTH 2. 'As dependent on each other as man and wife': Cultural Contacts and Transfers by DAVID BLACKBOURN Part I. High Politics 3. 'The worst of enemies': Kaiser Wilhelm II and His Uncle Edward VII by JOHN C. G. ROHL 4. 'Perhaps also useful for our election campaign': The Parliamentary Impasse of the Late Wilhelmine State and the British Constitutional Crisis, 1909-1911 by FRANK LORENZ MULLER Part II. Colonial Culture 5. 'Mutual goodwill and admiration' or 'jealous ill-will'? Empire and Popular Culture by JOHN M. MACKENZIE 6. 'Are we a cruel nation?' Colonial Practices, Perceptions, and Scandals by FRANK BOSCH Part III. Gender 7. 'An embarrassment to the family, to the public, and to the state': Liberalism and the Rights of Women, 1860-1914 by GEOFF ELEY 8. 'Being heard on important matters of international life': Transnational Perspectives on Women's Movements, 1890-1914 by JEAN H. QUATAERT Part IV. Legal Culture 9. 'Legal tyranny' versus the 'rule of law'? Law and Civil Society by JOSE HARRIS 10. 'A perverse determination to break the law': Dealing with the Habitual Offender by SABINE FREITAG Part V. Academic Life 11. 'Cosmopolitan Nationalists': German Students in Britain—British Students in Germany by THOMAS WEBER 12. 'England has righted itself with so much energy': Institutional Transference between Technical Universities, 1890-1914 by OLIVER GRANT Part VI. Music and Architecture 13. 'A musical clash of civilisations'? Musical Transfers and Rivalries around 1900 by SVEN OLIVER MULLER 14. 'What we may learn from it': Cultural Contacts and Transfers in Architecture by MATTHEW JEFFERIES Part VII. Highbrow and Lowbrow Literature 15. 'Only connect': Personal and Cultural Entanglements in E. M. Forster's Howards End by MARC SCHALENBERG 16. 'The foul-visaged anti-Christ of journalism'? The Popular Press between Warmongering and International Cooperation by DOMINIK GEPPERT Part VIII. Popular Culture 17. 'Representing the very best': Anglo-German Competition and Transfers in Sport by CHRISTIANE EISENBERG 18. 'In the imaginative fashion of Teutons': Anglo-German History and the Naval Theatre by JAN RUGER Notes on Contributors Name Index.…