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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations (vii)
Series Editors’ Preface (xviii)
Acknowledgements (xix)

Introduction – ‘The Beginnings’ (1)

I. Mapping Germany, 1860–1914 (9)
1. From Geographical Expression to German Empire (11)
2. ‘North Sea’ or ‘German Ocean’? Britain and Germany in the Wider World (21)
3. A ‘Pink Link’ – Race, Religion and the Anglo-German Cartographic Freemasonry (27)
4. War and the Severing of the ‘Pink Link’ (37)

II. Travelling to Germany, 1860–1914: A Guidebook (43)
5. Britain and Baedeker’s Germany (45)
6. The Rhine, the Spas, and Beyond; in War and Peace (53)
7. Business as Usual: The 1880s and 1890s (62)
8. The Last of the Summer Holidays – Twentieth Century Travel (72)

III. Models and Monsters: English Literature and the Idea of Germany (83)
9. Learned, Indefatigable, Deep-Thinking Germany (85)
10. The German Invasion of Britain in 1872 and ‘What Became of the Invaders’ (93)
11. Two Georges and Two Germanies: Gissing and Meredith Commence Debate (104)
12. Looking into the Abyss? (120)

IV. Punch, Judy and Deutsche Michel: Cartoons of Germany (131)
13. ‘Wilhelm in Wonderland’ – Germany in the Wars of Unification (133)
14. Satiated and Satisfied? Bismarckian Germany (184)
15. ‘Dropping the Pilot’ – Kaiser Wilhelm II and the New Course (213)
16. The Coming of the ‘Horrible Hun’ (261)

Conclusions (316)

Notes (321)
Index (367)