British Images of Germany

British Images of Germany
Author: R. Scully
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137283467

British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.

British Travel Writers, 1837-1875

British Travel Writers, 1837-1875
Author: Barbara Brothers
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on writers of tour memoirs, which were the precursors of contemporary guidebooks, including accounts by women travelers. The distinction between traveler and tourist played a part in the development of the literature of travel. Discusses the impact of technology on the travel industry, including advancements in ocean travel and the railway. These nineteenth-century British travel writers provided ethnographic or scientific data of great use to scholars.