Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich

ISBN-13: 9781412807838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 464 str.

Friedrich Darmstaedter; Eda Sagarra

Opis

Chancellor Otto Bismarck's "greatness" lay in what he created, the German Reich of 1871. Th is Reich was the product of his genius, and in it his genius took complete shape. In less than a decade German chaos was brought to an end and in its place a homogeneous state began to arise. Th e structure of this state left no room for opposing political forces, but rather made ready a roof under which these forces might rally, support each other, and gain strength. Bismarck and the Creation of the Second Reich begins as a biography but continues as a description of his political life and the ideas that led to the birth of an authoritarian political culture.

Spis treści

I: Family and Descent; II: School Years; III: Student Days; IV: Civil Servant; V: Bismarck as Landowner; VI: His Engagement; VII: From Engagement to Marriage; VIII: Bismarck as Member of Parliament; IX: The Revolution of 1848; X: The Way to Olmütz; XI: Ambassador to the Federal Diet; XII: The Crimean War; XIII: The Change of Government in Prussia; XIV: The Struggle for the Premiership; XV: The Government without a Budget; XVI: Towards the Danish Conflict; XVII: Austro-Prussian Friendship; XVIII: Preparation for War Against Austria; XIX: Nikolsburg; XX: The Foundation of the North German Confederacy; XXI: The Working of the North German Confederacy; XXII: The Franco-Prussian War; XXIII: The New Reich

O autorze

Friedrich Darmstaedter