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Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers: Volume 2, Diaries by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers: Volume 2, Diaries written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1957-01-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of Friedrich von Holstein's work, Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, containing his diaries.
Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1955 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers, Correspondence by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers, Correspondence written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kaiser Wilhelm II by : Christopher Clark
Download or read book Kaiser Wilhelm II written by Christopher Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers: Volume 1, Memoirs and Political Observations by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers: Volume 1, Memoirs and Political Observations written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1955-01-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Friedrich von Holstein's work containing his memoirs and political observations including Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian war.
Book Synopsis The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862-1914 by : I. N. Lambi
Download or read book The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862-1914 written by I. N. Lambi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Splintered Party by : Dan S. White
Download or read book The Splintered Party written by Dan S. White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Failure to Prevent World War I by : Hall Gardner
Download or read book The Failure to Prevent World War I written by Hall Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888 by : David H. Olivier
Download or read book German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888 written by David H. Olivier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sons and Heirs written by Heidi Mehrkens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Friedrich Von Holstein by : Norman Rich
Download or read book Friedrich Von Holstein written by Norman Rich and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1965 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Holstein Papers: Volume 4, Correspondence 1897-1909 by : Friedrich von Holstein
Download or read book The Holstein Papers: Volume 4, Correspondence 1897-1909 written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1963-01-02 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of Friedrich von Holstein, Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, containing his correspondence, 1897-1909.
Book Synopsis Forces of Habit by : David T. Courtwright
Download or read book Forces of Habit written by David T. Courtwright and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery, interchange, and exploitation of the planet's psychoactive resources, from tea and kola to opiates and amphetamines.
Book Synopsis Bismarck and Mitteleuropa by : Bascom Barry Hayes
Download or read book Bismarck and Mitteleuropa written by Bascom Barry Hayes and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle.".
Download or read book Young Wilhelm written by John C. G. Röhl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-29 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. G. Röhl's acclaimed life of Kaiser Wilhelm II, from his birth in 1859 to his accession to the throne in 1888.
Download or read book Caesar in the USA written by Maria Wyke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how—from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet—Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America’s future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment.
