Bismarck : a life / Jonathan Steinberg

Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 577 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits

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English.

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.

Summary

Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than anybody in the 19thcentury--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.

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ISBN

9780199782666 (electronic bk.)
0199782660 (electronic bk.)
1283098121
9781283098120
9780191604317 (1U)
0191604313
9780199782529
0199782520
9780199599011
0199599017
9786613098122
6613098124

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-537) and index.

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