A Searchlight on Germany

Hornaday, William T.

A Wartime Indictment of Prussian Militarism, German Imperialism, and World War I Political Culture

6,10 €

ISBN: 9788028340193

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 64 g

Produktinformationen "A Searchlight on Germany"

A Searchlight on Germany is a wartime polemic that examines Imperial Germany through the moral lens of the First World War, interpreting militarism, autocracy, and national discipline as symptoms of a dangerous political culture. Hornaday writes in a direct, forensic prose, assembling public events, reported atrocities, diplomatic conduct, and ideological claims into an indictment meant to awaken American opinion. In literary context, it belongs to the interventionist pamphlet tradition of 1914-1918, where civic argument, journalism, and moral exhortation converge. William T. Hornaday was best known as a zoologist, conservationist, and founding director of the New York Zoological Park, but his public career also made him a disciplined observer of institutions, power, and responsibility. His lifelong campaigns against wildlife destruction sharpened a reformer's instinct: when he saw organized violence and state doctrine threatening civilization, he responded with the same urgency he brought to conservation. Readers interested in World War I rhetoric, American attitudes toward Germany, or the moral language of progressive-era public debate will find this book revealing. It is not neutral history, but as advocacy it powerfully records the fears, convictions, and civic pressures of its moment.

Eigenschaften "A Searchlight on Germany"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Erster Weltkrieg, Europäische Geschichte
Verlag:	Sharp Ink

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