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Title: 'The Germans are Hydrophobes': Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity
Author(s): Rapport, Michael
Contact Email: mgr1@stir.ac.uk
Editor(s): Forrest, A
Wilson, P H
Citation: Rapport M (2008) 'The Germans are Hydrophobes': Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity. In: Forrest A & Wilson PH (eds.) The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 234-255. http://www.palgrave.com/Products/title.aspx?pid=276487
Keywords: France and Germany
National Identity
France History 1789-1793
Nation-state
Germans France
Issue Date: Dec-2008
Date Deposited: 19-May-2010
Series/Report no.: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
Abstract: This article addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in the age of the French Revolution by looking at French attitudes towards the Germans. It engages with theories of nationalism while presenting empirical evidence gleaned from archival research. This material, sometimes grimly, sometimes rather amusingly, reveals much about French ideas and prejudices about the Germans and how it reflected back on the revolutionary and Napoleonic sense of what it meant to be French.
Rights: Mike Rapport, 'The Germans are Hydrophobes': Germany and the Germans in the Shaping of French Identity, 2008, Palgrave Macmillan reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.; This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive version of this piece may be found in The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 edited by Alan Forrest and Peter H. Wilson which can be purchased from www.palgrave.com
URL: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/title.aspx?pid=276487

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