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Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1957-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521053174
This second volume of Friedrich von Holstein's work, Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, containing his diaries.
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : GERMANY FOREIGN RELATIONS 1841-1918
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317891468
Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Following Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent peacetime decades of the Wilhelmine era into global war and exile, the book presents a new interpretation of this controversial monarch and assesses the impact on Germany of his forty-year reign.
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1955-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521053167
The first volume of Friedrich von Holstein's work containing his memoirs and political observations including Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian war.
Author : I. N. Lambi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000008197
When originally published in 1984, and based on archival research, this book was the first fully documented discussion of German naval strategy and planning from 1862-1914 against France, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The book is a complete study of the relationship of the navy to Prusso-German power politics both in terms of the complexity of the problems discussed and in the length of the period covered. It will be invaluable to students of naval and military history, strategy and diplomacy, as well as those of German history.
Author : Dan S. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0674833201
As a study of the greatest middle class party of Imperial Germany, The Splintered Party is inevitably, in its broadest aspect, an inquiry into the weaknesses of liberalism in the Empire of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. How did the National Liberals, the dominant force in the Reichstag of the 1870s, become by 1914 a spent and divided power? Professor White explores this question from a new perspective, emphasizing regional circumstances as primary agents of the party's decline. The resulting portrait underscores the paradox of the National Liberals: a party with strength in all areas of the Empire, a rarity before 1914, yet a party whose impact was undermined bydivisions among its regional branches. In The Splintered Party the former Grand Duchy of Hessen serves as a testing ground where the regional foundations of National Liberalism can be exposed. As Professor White points out, the party's reversals on the Imperial plane after 1878--rejection by Bismarck, electoral defeats, internal splits--not only ended its early primacy in German affairs but also shifted political initiative from Berlin and the Reichstag delegation to the National Liberal branches in the states and provinces, which had maintained unity, power, and alliances with local government in spite of the upheaval above them. The consequences of this change become visible through close examination of the political and social structure in Hessen. On the regional level a liberalism based on the claim to majority representation by the notables (Honoratioren) of bourgeois society, a creed no longer plausible in national politics, remained defensible. Through the Heidelberg Declaration of 1884 the National Liberals of the German Southwest attempted to buttress this approach with an economic and social platform and, simultaneously, to make it the impulse of the national party's revival. But they succeeded only in deferring National Liberalism's adjustment to democratic politics and in subordinating their movement to the clash of regional and constituency interests. The result was a chronically splintered party. Against the backdrop of this main theme, White delineates several additional features of the changing political and social scene in Imperial Germany--the local power of the notables, Bismarck's skills as a political manager, the character of agrarian discontent and rural anti-Semitism, the steady advance of socialism. The uniquely German element in National Liberalism's failure is assessed in a concluding comparison with the development of liberal politics in Britain and Italy.
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521179629
Friedrich von Holstein (1837-1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. Since his death historians have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. A selection of his Nachlass, which was first published in volume form between 1955 and 1963, is presented here. The original effect of this publication prompted an entire re-judgement of Bismarck, of German foreign policy at that time and since, and of Holstein himself. Though he had been advised by Bismarck that it was indiscreet to keep a diary, Holstein began to do so in the 1880s, and passed the pages to a cousin as they were completed up to 1886, when they died out. This diary (Volume 2) gives an incomparable fresh and direct description of life in the German foreign ministry at the time as well as Holstein's own mordant comments on the general trend of international politics.
Author : Hall Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317032175
World War I represents one of the most studied, yet least understood, systemic conflicts in modern history. At the time, it was a major power war that was largely unexpected. This book refines and expands points made in the author’s earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative viewpoint to the thesis of Christopher Clark, Fritz Fischer, Paul Kennedy, among others, as to the war's long-term origins. By starting its analysis with the causes and consequences of the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, the study systematically explores the key geostrategic, political-economic and socio-cultural-ideological disputes between France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, Japan, the United States and Great Britain, the nature of their foreign policy goals, alliance formations, arms rivalries, as well as the dynamics of the diplomatic process, so as to better explain the deeper roots of the 'Great War'. The book concludes with a discussion of the war's relevance and the diplomatic failure to forge a possible Anglo-German-French alliance, while pointing out how it took a second world war to realize Victor Hugo’s nineteenth-century vision of a United States of Europe-a vision now being challenged by financial crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349141930
In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity, 'Civilization' and Conquest. The Scramble for Africa is the first full-scale study of that extraordinary episode in history.
Author : David H. Olivier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135769116
This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially commerce-raiding, in comparison to what other navies were doing in this era of rapid technological change. It is not an insular history, merely listing ship rosters or specific events; it is a history of the German navy in relation to its potential foes. It is also a look at a new military institution involved in an inter-service rivalry for funds, technology and manpower with the prestigious and well-established army.
Author : John Reader
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141926933
Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals facing much of the continent today. Reader tells the extraordinary story of humankind's adaptation to the ferocious obstacles of forest, river and desert, and to the threat of debilitating parasites, bacteria and viruses unmatched elsewhere in the world. He also shows how the world's richest assortment of animals and plants has helped - or hindered - human progress in Africa.
Author : Heidi Mehrkens,Frank Lorenz Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137454980
Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521053198
The fourth volume of Friedrich von Holstein, Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, containing his correspondence, 1897-1909.
Author : Norman Rich
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Germany
ISBN : 8210379456XXX