Our Friend "The Enemy"

"...a well-researched, well-written, and provocative book that offers numerous perceptive insights..." - Jean-Guy Lalande, St. Francis Xavier University, Historical Studies in Education "While delivering a set of far-reaching arguments, Weber's book remains readable. He conducted considerable primary research, providing a wealth of fascinating detail interlaced with well-chosen quotations that drive home his arguments with force." - John R. Davis, American Historical Review "Weber has produced a compelling assessment of the role that Heidelberg and Oxford played in the reproduction of elites in German and British societies, respectively. His case studies enable him to offer a wholly persuasive reconsideration of the German Sonderweg. Our Friend "The Enemy" presents a first-rate argument for why historians should attempt to pursue comparative studies." - Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont, Burlington "Weber's argument poses real problems for the theory of an inevitable Anglo-German antagonism culminating in World War I. He shows that, contrary to what proponents of the German/Sonderweg thesis have long assumed, there was far more social and political "Weber challenges the conventional historiography that the pre-1914 world was divided between a militaristic and Anti-Semitic Germany and a liberal, tolerant Britain." - CHOICE