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Gold and iron : Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the building of the German empire / Fritz Stern.
LIBRA DD218.2 .S85 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Fritz, 1926-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.
- Bismarck, Otto.
- Bleichröder, Gerson von, 1822-1893.
- Bleichröder, Gerson von.
- Statesmen--Germany--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Germany.
- Bankers--Germany--Biography.
- Bankers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxiv, 620 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Crawfordsville, Indiana : Printed and bound by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House], 1977.
- Contents:
- Part One. The Hazardous Rise, 1859-1871. First encounter: Junker and Jew; Bismarck's struggle for survival; Betwen the Throne and the Gallows; A banker's share in Bismarck's triumph; Bismarck's purse and Bleichröder's place; The third war; Hubris in Versailles
- Par Two. Banker for an Empire. A new baron in a new Berlin; Imperial style in politics and economics; Greed and intrigue; The fourth estate; The prince enriched; The world of banking and diplomacy; Rumania: the triumph of expediency; The reluctant colonialist; The fall of Bismarck
- Part Three. The Anguish of Assimilation. The Jew as a patriotic parvenu; The hostage of the new Anti-Semitism; The embittered end.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "The text of this book was set on the Linotype in a face called Times Roman, designed by Stanley Morison for The Times (London), and first introduced by that newspaper in 1932."--A Note on the Type.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [601]-602) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".
- Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing, March 1977".
- ISBN:
- 0394495454 :
- OCLC:
- 2373225
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