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Book Review
| Deutschlandbilder und Deutschlandpolitik: Studien zur Wilson-Administration (1913–1921) (Images of Germany and German politics: Studies of the Wilson administration [1913–1921]). By Alexander Sedlmaier. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2003. 386 pp. Paper, €70.00, ISBN 3-515-08124-0.) In German.
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| Forty-five years ago Ernst Fraenkel published a pathbreaking article on the perception of Woodrow Wilson in Germany during and just after World War I ("Das deutsche Wilsonbild," Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, 1960). His purpose was not so much to explore Wilson or his policies as to suggest a link between the German attitudes he discovered and the fate of the Weimar Republic. Since that time, such studies of discourse have become a staple of historical scholarship, and Alexander Sedlmaier, playing Marx to Fraenkel's Hegel, has now demonstrated both the possibilities and the limitations of the genre. |
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