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Bismarck : a life / Jonathan Steinberg.
LIBRA DD218 .S795 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinberg, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.
- Bismarck, Otto.
- Statesmen--Germany--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1871-1888.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 577 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anyone in the 19th century--except for Napoleon. This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture.
- Contents:
- Bismarck's "sovereign self"
- Bismarck : born Prussian and what that meant
- Bismarck : the "Mad Junker"
- Bismarck represents himself, 1847-1851
- Bismarck as diplomat, 1851-1862
- Power
- "I have beaten them all! All!"
- The unification of Germany, 1866-1870
- The decline begins : liberals and Catholics
- "The guest house of the dead Jew"
- Three Kaisers and Bismarck's fall from power
- Conclusion : Bismarck's legacy : blood and irony.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [481]-537) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199782529
- 9780199599011
- 0199782520
- 0199599017
- OCLC:
- 663438587
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