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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
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Download or read book The Holstein Ppers Volume III Correspondence 1861-1896 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521053188
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Holstein Papers: Volume 3, Correspondence 1861-1896 written by Friedrich von Holstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1961-01-02 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Friedrich von Holstein's work, Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office, containing his correspondence, 1861-1896.
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
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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:
Author : Friedrich von Holstein
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
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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:
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.
Author : Norman Rich
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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:
Author : Günter Richter
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Friedrich von Holstein written by Günter Richter and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Kastner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197683169
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A Measure Short of War written by Jill Kastner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, gripping history of meddling, manipulation, and skulduggery among great power rivals In 2016, the United States was stunned by evidence of Russian meddling in the US presidential elections. But it shouldn't have been. Subversion--domestic interference to undermine or manipulate a rival--is as old as statecraft itself. The basic idea would have been familiar to Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Elizabeth I, or Bismarck. Russia's operation was just the latest episode, and there will be more to come. It came as a surprise in 2016 because the sole superpower had fallen asleep at the wheel. But what's really new? Have we entered a new age of vulnerability? To answer these questions, and to protect ourselves against future subversion, we need a clear-eyed understanding of what it is and how it works. In A Measure Short of War, Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth provide just that, taking the reader on a compelling ride through the history of subversion, exploring two thousand years of mischief and manipulation to illustrate subversion's allure, its operational possibilities, and the means for fighting back against it. With vivid examples from the ancient world, the great-power rivalries of the 19th century, epic Cold War struggles, and more, A Measure Short of War shows how prior technological revolutions opened up new avenues for subversion, and how some democracies have been fatally weakened by foreign subverters while others have artfully defended themselves--and their democratic principles. A primer on the history of subversive statecraft in great power rivalry, A Measure Short of War will leave readers smarter about foreign meddling, more prepared to debate national responses, and better able to navigate between the twin temptations of insouciance and overreaction.
Author : Gavin Wiens
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031228634
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Imperial German Army Between Kaiser and King written by Gavin Wiens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a reappraisal of Germany’s military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army? This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871, has commonly been seen as the 'school of the nation'. After all – so this argument goes – tens of thousands of young men passed through its ranks each year, with conscripts undergoing an intense program of patriotic education and returning to civilian life as fervent German nationalists and ardent supporters of the German emperor, or Kaiser. This book reexamines this assumption. It does not deny that devotion to the Fatherland and loyalty to the Kaiser were widespread among German soldiers in the decades following unification. It nevertheless shows that the imperial German army was far less homogenous and far more faction-ridden than has hitherto been acknowledged.
Author : Richard Frankel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845207165
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Bismarck's Shadow written by Richard Frankel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is a tale often told by ghosts and demi-gods, and our relationship to these figures often determines the shape of the narratives we weave about the past. Bismarck's Shadow targets this idea, as it is a book that unearths a fascinating phenomenon of German political culture - the elevation of a dead political figure, Otto von Bismarck, to the level of a demi-god and the effects of such deification on the course of German politics during the first half of the 20th century.Already a central national symbol during his lifetime, after his death Bismarck became the object of a political religion, what Frankel regards as a 'Bismarck Cult'. This book examines how certain ritual practices and a particular historical understanding - a Bismarckian gospel - provided its followers meaning and direction. Extending beyond the cultural as well, Bismarck's Shadow also looks at how the cult of Bismarck translated into political practice. In Frankel's estimation, the logic of the Bismarckian political religion contributed to the right's progressive radicalization from the turn of the century to the triumph of the Nazis. The image of the deceased figure of Bismarck serves as a tool to investigate the transformation of the German right from a traditional, state-supporting group to a populist, radical nationalist movement like Nazism.Timely and compelling, Bismarck's Shadow raises long overdue questions about the political religion of National Socialism, Germans' perceptions about Bismarck, and the relationship between Otto von Bismarck and Adolf Hitler.
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 Frost Kennan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691007845
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Bismarck's European Order written by George Frost Kennan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1981-04-21 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an attempt to discover some of the underlying origins of World War I, the eminent diplomat and writer George Kennan focuses on a small sector of offstage events to show how they affected the drama at large long before the war even began. In the introduction to his book George Kennan tells us, "I came to see World War I . . . as the great seminal catastrophe of this century--the event which . . . lay at the heart of the failure and decline of this Western civilization." But, he asks, who could help being struck by the contrast between this apocalyptic result and the "delirious euphoria" of the crowds on the streets of Europe at the outbreak of war in 1914! "Were we not," he suggests, "in the face of some monstrous miscalculation--some pervasive failure to read correctly the outward indicators of one's own situation?" It is from this perspective that Mr. Kennan launches a "micro-history" of the Franco-Russian relationship as far back as the 1870s in an effort to determine the motives that led people "to wander so blindly" into the horrors of the First World War.
Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556316
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Aleister Crowley in America written by Tobias Churton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Crowley’s relationship with the United States • Details Crowley’s travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation • Investigates Crowley’s undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI • Includes an abundance of previously unpublished letters and diaries Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley’s extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States, while working to undermine Germany’s propaganda campaign to keep the United States out of World War I. Masterfully recreating turn-of-the-century America in all its startling strangeness, Churton explains how Crowley arrived in New York amid dramatic circumstances in 1900. After other travels, in 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley’s 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley’s complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley’s involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler while living and lecturing on now-vanished “Genius Row.” We experience his love affairs and share Crowley’s hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. We examine his controversial political stunts, his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the “Elixir of Life” in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, his prolific literary achievements, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley’s influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and rocket fuel genius Jack Parsons. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley’s organization in LA. Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley’s U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic “religion” of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley’s final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons.
Author : Francisco Martinez
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787353532
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia written by Francisco Martinez and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field. The anthropological study of all these places shows that national identity and historical representations can be constructed in relation to waste and disrepair too, also demonstrating how we can understand generational change in a material sense. Praise for Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia 'By adopting the tropes of ‘repair’ and ‘waste’, this book innovatively manages to link various material registers from architecture, intergenerational relations, affect and museums with ways of making the past present. Through a rigorous yet transdisciplinary method, Martínez brings together different scales and contexts that would often be segregated out. In this respect, the ethnography unfolds a deep and nuanced analysis, providing a useful comparative and insightful account of the processes of repair and waste making in all their material, social and ontological dimensions.' Victor Buchli, Professor of Material Culture at UCL 'This book comprises an endearingly transdisciplinary ethnography of postsocialist material culture and social change in Estonia. Martínez creatively draws on a number of critical and cultural theorists, together with additional research on memory and political studies scholarship and the classics of anthropology. Grappling concurrently with time and space, the book offers a delightfully thick description of the material effects generated by the accelerated post-Soviet transformation in Estonia, inquiring into the generational specificities in experiencing and relating to the postsocialist condition through the conceptual anchors of wasted legacies and repair. This book defies disciplinary boundaries and shows how an attention to material relations and affective infrastructures might reinvigorate political theory.' Maria Mälksoo, Senior Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent
Author : Sylvia G. Haim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135780382
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Modern Egypt written by Sylvia G. Haim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, 'Modern Egypt, Studies in Politics and Society' is an important contribution to the field of History.
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Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Manuscripta written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Feb. 1957-July 1959 include a Checklist of the Vatican manuscript codices available for consultation at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library at St. Louis University, pts. 1-8.
Author : CARL G. SCHOTT, Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146539253X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Mission to Saint Petersburg written by CARL G. SCHOTT, Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MISSION TO SAINT PETERSBURG is a detailed account of the diplomatic history of Europe in the 1870 ́s. It centers on the career of the French Ambassador to Russia during that period. It relies upon extensive research in unpublished French, German, and Russian diplomatic correspondence.
