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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789688603321

Autore

Steinberg Jonathan

Titolo

Bismarck : a life / / Jonathan Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-19-160433-X

0-19-160431-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 577 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill., maps, ports

Disciplina

943.08/3092

Soggetti

Statesmen - Germany

Germany Politics and government 1871-1888

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction; 2. Born Prussian and What that Meant; 3. The 'Mad Junker'; 4. Bismarck Represents Himself, 1847 to 1851; 5. Bismarck as Diplomat 1851-1862; 6. Power; 7. 'I have beaten them all! All!'; 8. The Unification of Germany 1866 to 1870; 9. The Decline Begins: Liberals and Catholics; 10. 'The Guest House of the Dead Jew'; 11. Three Kaisers and Bismarck's Fall from Power; 12. Conclusion: Bismarck and His Legacy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive new biography exploring the greatness and limits of the 'Iron Chancellor', Otto von Bismarck: a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality.