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Author : Otto Bismarck (Fürst von)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman written by Otto Bismarck (Fürst von) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Jay Hutto
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628084
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Kaiser's Confidante written by Richard Jay Hutto and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a princess in her own right after his death. An active philanthropist to Protestant causes, she then married Count Alfred von Waldersee whose close ties to the Prussian court made her an intimate friend of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a mentor and valued friend to his young wife. Although she preferred to remain in the background, Mary's influence caused intense jealousy by those at court who resented her friendship with the kaiser and kaiserin. This biography chronicles the remarkable life of an American woman whose wealth and influence enabled her to rise to power in the Prussian royal court.
Author : Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199782660
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Bismarck written by Jonathan Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck's personality. He was a kind of malign genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them. As one contemporary noted: "the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually." In this comprehensive and expansive biography--a brilliant study in power--Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark contrast between the "Iron Chancellor's" unmatched political skills and his profoundly flawed human character.
Author : George W. Egerton
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714634715
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Political Memoir written by George W. Egerton and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genre of political memoir has a long history, from its origins in classical times through its popularity in the age of courts and cabinets to its ubiquity in modern mass cultures where retired politicians increasingly attract large and eager readerships for their revelations. Yet there is virtually no scholarly criticism which treats this complex form of literature as a distinct genre, fusing autobiographical, historical and political elements. The essays in this book draw together the collaborative findings of a team of British, European, American and Canadian scholars to present a pioneering historical and critical study of the genre of political memoir, analysing the development of its distinct functions and assessing leading memoirists in European, American, Canadian, Indian and Japanese societies. The editor, George Egerton, introduces the volume and surveys the principal features of the genre over its long history. Otto Pflanze analyses the memoirs of Bismarck; Robert Young, Milton Israel, Joshua Mostow and Robert Bothwell study the memoir literature of France, India, Japan and Canada respectively. Barry Gough and Tim Travers look at naval and military memoirists, while Zara Steiner, B.J.C. McKercher and Valerie Cromwell assess the memoirs of diplomats and their families. Leonidas Hill examines the memoirs of leading Nazis. John Munro, Francis Heller and Robert Ferrell convey inside information on the making of memoirs - notably by the Canadian Prime Ministers Diefenbaker and Pearson and the American President Truman. Stephen Ambrose assays Nixon as memoirist, while Janos Bak portrays the status of memoirists under totalitarian regimes. Wesley Wark and John Naylor analyse theproliferation of intelligence memoirs and government efforts to protect official secrets from the revelations of the candid memoirist. The principal findings reached by the contributors in their study of this problematic but influential genre are set out by the editor in the concluding chapter.
Author : Xu Qiyu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549735
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Fragile Rise written by Xu Qiyu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's rise to power before World War I from a Chinese persective, and the geopolitical lessons for today. A series of solemn anniversary events have marked the centenary of World War I. Could history repeat itself in today's geopolitics? Now, as then, a land power with a growing economy and a maritime power with global commitments are the two leading states in the international system. Most ominously, the outbreak of war in 1914 is a stark reminder that nations cannot rely on economic interdependence and ongoing diplomacy to keep the peace. In Fragile Rise, Xu Qiyu offers a Chinese perspective on the course of German grand strategy in the decades before World War I. Xu shows how Germany's diplomatic blunders turned its growing power into a liability instead of an asset. Bismarck's successors provoked tension and conflict with the other European great powers. Germany's attempts to build a powerful navy alienated Britain. Fearing an assertive Germany, France and Russia formed an alliance, leaving the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire as Germany's only major ally. Xu's account demonstrates that better strategy and statesmanship could have made a difference—for Germany and Europe. His analysis offers important lessons for the leaders of China and other countries. Fragile Rise reminds us that the emergence of a new great power creates risks that can be managed only by adroit diplomats, including the leaders of the emerging power. In the twenty-first century, another great war may not be inevitable. Heeding the lessons of Fragile Rise could make it even less likely.
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1444 pages
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Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard H. Immerman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179033
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century written by Richard H. Immerman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson declared to Congress that the objective was not merely to bring "a new balance of power," but rather to bring a "just and secure peace" to the world by the end of the conflict. In this famous speech, known as "The Fourteen Points," Wilson offered the world a road map toward a more equitable international system in the midst of unprecedented global conflict, including ideas on the interconnectedness of democracy, trade, and the concept of a forum for peaceably resolving international disputes. Even decades after the end of the First World War, Wilson's ideas remained important and influenced many of his successors. But now, in the twenty-first century, there are forces at work in the world that Wilson could never have imagined, and those forces call for a new plan toward peace. In Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century: A Renewed Appeal for Cooperative Internationalism, Richard H. Immerman and Jeffrey A. Engel bring together a diverse group of thinkers who take up Wilson's call for a new world order by exploring fourteen new directions for the twenty-first century. The contributors—scholars, policymakers, entrepreneurs, poets, doctors, and scientists—propose solutions to contemporary challenges such as migration, global warming, health care, food security, and privacy in the digital age. Taken together, these points challenge American leaders and policymakers to champion an international effort, not to make America great again, but to work cooperatively with other nations on the basis of mutual respect.
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Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stacie E. Goddard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501730312
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book When Right Makes Might written by Stacie E. Goddard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "When Right Makes Might".
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Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243451
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993-09-17 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393312240
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud) written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-09-17 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.
Author : Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674064801
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Fighting for the Soul of Germany written by Rebecca Ayako Bennette and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.
Author : Maine State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report written by Maine State Library and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First report of the Library Commission of Maine, 1900" appended to 29th report.
Author : Alisher Faizullaev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900435414X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy written by Alisher Faizullaev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap, Alisher Faizullaev describes how states and their representatives may use manipulative practices for influencing the opponent. The author distinguishes three forms of using symbolic insult in diplomacy: by misrecognition (“diplomatic bypassing”), direct confrontation (“diplomatic punch”), and concealed verbal or nonverbal actions (“diplomatic slap”). The book focuses on “diplomatic slap” – employing obscure symbolic insult as a means of tacit manipulation. Analyzing historical and modern cases, Alisher Faizullaev shows that implicit symbolic insult usually appears ambiguously, and allows the offender to stay engaged with the victim. This work reveals vailed aspects of diplomatic practices and represents a valuable source for students and practitioners of international politics and diplomacy.
Author : Michael F. Palo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395857
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Neutrality as a Policy Choice for Small/Weak Democracies written by Michael F. Palo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael F. Palo explains how a historical and theoretical examination of Belgian neutrality, 1839-1940, can help readers understand the behaviour of small/weak democracies in the international system.
