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Ernst Schultze on Britain and America, 1898–1914: A Bildungsbürger Looks to the West
- German Studies Review
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, May 2019
- pp. 281-298
- 10.1353/gsr.2019.0045
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
This essay focuses on views of Britain and America that were expressed by the German librarian, publisher, and publicist Ernst Schultze. Although he criticized both countries, his orientation was in no way conservatively anti-Western. He not only advocated but also applauded progressive reform, holding up British and American examples for Germans to consider and in some cases to emulate. In so doing, he exemplified both movement away from laissez-faire and a spirit of internationalism that was widespread before the First World War among reformist intellectuals. His writings serve as a window through which one can glimpse a wide range of interests and attitudes with regard to two countries to Germany's west.