Amity, Antagonism and Appeasement: Anglo-German Encounters, 1871-1945 (HI9B7)
Module Overview
Sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, always complicated, the relationship between Britain and Germany has been of central importance to the United Kingdom鈥檚 relations with continental Europe since the end of the nineteenth century. No other modern European state has inspired such a variety of responses 鈥� fear, admiration, envy, and revulsion 鈥� or been regarded by turns as such a valued partner or deadly enemy. Nor has any other relationship had such an enduring fascination for historians.
This module will explore the development of Anglo-German relations between 1871 (the unification of Germany) and 1945 (the end of the Second World War) with the aim of showing why the relationship between Britain and Germany was so important to the histories of both nations. Students will use a wide range of primary sources to survey a variety of Anglo-German encounters and interactions in the political, social and cultural spheres and examine the ways in which personal contact and relationships shaped wider public attitudes and official policy. n this way students will examine the complexity and ambiguity of the Anglo-German relationship as it developed over a period of dramatic political, economic and social change and be encouraged to consider the ways in which it continues to inform British attitudes towards Germany and Europe.
Module Convenor
Dr Colin StorerLink opens in a new window
Seminars
TBC
Assessment:
30 CAT version: 6000 word essay (100%)
20 CAT version: 4000 word essay (100%)
Indicative Syllabus
1. Introduction - Patterns and Perspectives on the Anglo-German Relationship
2. Family Ties: Race, Nation and Migration
3. Travel, Tourism and Intellectual Exchange before the First World War
4. 鈥楾he Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism鈥�
5. 鈥楾he Crisis of the Anglo-German Antagonism鈥�? The First World War
6. Reading Week
7. Making Peace: Versailles and the 'Locarno Spirit'
8. Tourism and Cultural Exchange in the 1920s and 30s
9. Changing Perceptions of National Socialism, 1929-37
10. Appeasement and the Road to War
Indicative Reading List
Stefan Berger, The British Labour Party and the German Social Democrats, 1900-1931 (Oxford, 1994)
Adolf M. Birke, Britain and Germany: Historical Patterns of a Relationship (German Historical Institute, 1987)
Tim Bouverie, Appeasing Hitler (London, 2019)
Magnus Brechtken, 鈥楶ersonality, Image and Perception: Patterns and Problems of Anglo-Germans Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries鈥� in Adolf M. Birke, Magnus Brechtken and Alaric Searle (eds.), An Anglo-German Dialogue: The Munich Lectures on the History of International Relations (Munich, 2000)
Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy 1933-1940 (Cambridge, 1975)
R. J. Crampton, The Hollow D茅tente: Anglo-German Relations in the Balkans, 1911-1914 (Prior, 1980)
John R. Davis, The Victorians and Germany (Peter Lang, 2007)
Peter Doyle and Robin Sch盲fer, Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire (History Press, 2015)
Jeffrey Dunn, The Crowe Memorandum: Sir Eyre Crowe and Foreign Office Perceptions of Germany, 1918-1925 (Cambridge Scholars, 2013)
Susan Duxbury-Neumann, What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain (Amberly Publishing, 2017)
Heather Ellis and Ulrike Kirchberger (eds.), Anglo-German Scholarly Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century (Brill Nijhoff, 2014)
Peter Edgerly Firchow, The Death of the German Cousin: Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920 (Associated University Press, 1986)
Peter Edgerly Firchow, Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960 (Catholic University of America Press, 2008)
F. R. Gannon, The British Press and Germany, 1936-1939 (OUP, 1971)
Dick Geary, 鈥榃orking Class Culture in Britain and Germany, 1870-1914: A Comparisson鈥� in Keith Laybourn and John Shepherd (eds.), Labour and Working Class Lives: Essays to Celebrate the Life and Work of Chris Wrigley (Manchester UP, 2017)
Dominic Geppert & Robert Gerwarth (eds.), Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (OUP, 2008)
R. Gorner, Anglo-German Affinities and Antipathies (London, 2005).
M. G枚rtemaker, Britain and Germany in the twentieth century (Oxford, 2006)
Julie Gottlieb, 鈥楪uilty Women,鈥� Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain (Palgrave, 2015)
Brigitte Granzow, A Mirror of Nazism: British Opinion and the Emergence of Hitler 1929-1933 (Gollancz, 1964)
Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 (Oxford, 1983)
Richard Griffiths, What did you do During the War: The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 (Routledge, 2016)
Gaynor Johnson, The Berlin Embassy of Lord D鈥橝bernon, 1920-1926 (Palgrave, 2002)
Gaynor Johnson (ed.), Locarno revisited: European diplomacy, 1920-1929 (Routledge, 2004)
Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (Ashfield, 1987)
Ian Kershaw, Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain鈥檚 Road to War (Penguin, 2005)
Frank McDonough, The Conservative Party and Anglo-German relations, 1905-1914 (Palgrave, 2007)
J. Mander, Our German cousins: Anglo-German relations in the 19th and 20th centuries (London, 1974).
Douglas Newton, British Policy and the Weimar Republic, 1918-1919 (OUP, 1996)
Panikos Panayi (ed.), Germans as Minorities During the First World War: A Global Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2014)
Panikos Panayi, German Immigrants in Britain During the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 (Berg, 1995)
J. Ramsden, Don't mention the war: the British and the Germans since 1890 (Abacus, 2007)
Jan R眉ger, Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (OUP, 2016)
Richard Scully, British images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism and Ambivalence, 1860-1914 (Palgrave, 2012)
M. Seymour, Noble endeavours: the life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories (London, 2014)
Daniel Snowman, The Hitler 茅migr茅s: the cultural impact on Britain of refugees from Nazism (Pimlico, 2003)
Andrew Steadman, Alternatives to Appeasement: Neville Chamberlain and Hitler's Germany (I. B. Tauris, 2014)
Matthew Stibbe, German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 2006)
Dan Stone, Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before war and Holocaust (Palgrave, 2003)
Colin Storer, Britain and the Weimar Republic: The History of a Cultural Relationship (I. B. Tauris, 2010)
Gerwin Strobl, The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain (Cambridge, 2000)
Karina Urbach, Bismarck鈥檚 Favourite Englishman: Lord Odo Russell鈥檚 Mission to Berlin (I. B. Tauris, 1999)
Karine Urbach, Go-betweens for Hitler (OUP, 2015)
David G. Williamson, The British in Germany 1918-1930: The Reluctant Occupiers (Bloomsbury, 2017)