Bismarck: a life

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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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Full title :Bismarck : a life / Jonathan Steinberg.

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Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 577 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199782666, 0199782660, 1283098121, 9781283098120, 9780191604317, 0191604313, 9786613098122, 6613098124
oclc:ocn719369985
LC Classification:DD218
Dewey Decimal:943.08/3092

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.

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Allemagne -- Politique et gouvernement … Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Bismarck, Otto,, Fürst von Germany Germany -- Politics and government -- 1… History History & Archaeology Hommes d'État -- Biographies. -- Allema… Politics and government Regions & Countries - Europe Statesmen Statesmen -- Biography. -- Germany