BRITISH IDENTITY AND THE GERMAN OTHER A Dissertation ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS................................................................................................................ii
LIST OF TABLES............................................................................................................................v
LIST OF FIGURES.........................................................................................................................vi
ABSTRACT...................................................................................................................................vii
CHAPTER
1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................1
2 HISTORY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF NATIONAL IDENTITY.......................................35
National Cultures and Citizenship.................................................................................... 39
Recent Historiography on National Identity......................................................................47
National Identity and the Brain..........................................................................................58
The Illusion of National Character.....................................................................................63
The Psychology of Stereotyping........................................................................................67
3 BRITISHNESS, ENGLISHNESS AND GERMAN OTHERNESS....................................75
British and English Identity...............................................................................................76
British/English Individualism and European Holism........................................................87
The Jewish Other in Europe and Britain...........................................................................92
Temporal and Spatial Difference in British and German Identities.................................102
4 EMPIRE, RACE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN.................110
Victorian Mentalities, National Myth and Empire...........................................................113
Comparisons with Antiquity............................................................................................118
The Racial Argument.......................................................................................................125
Conscious Stereotyping in the Nineteenth Century.........................................................137
5 STEREOTYPES OF OLD GERMANY............................................................................143
The Moral Barbarian........................................................................................................143
The German Boor.............................................................................................................152
The Pious/Godless German..............................................................................................159
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