LEADER 04322nam 2200577 450 001 9910789688603321 005 20230725031554.0 010 $a0-19-160433-X 010 $a0-19-160431-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000104978 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24082092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623748 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12237939 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623748 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656511 035 $a(PQKB)10155634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC716810 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716810 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11197956 035 $a(OCoLC)731646910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746148 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000104978 100 $a20170111h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBismarck $ea life /$fJonathan Steinberg 210 1$aOxford, [England] ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 577 p., [16] p. of plates )$cill., maps, ports 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-964242-7 311 $a0-19-959901-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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 330 $aA 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. 330 $bThis is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. The 'Iron Chancellor', the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria. Contemporaries called him a 'dictator' and several observers credited him with 'demonic' powers'. They were not wrong. The sheer power of his remarkable 'sovereign sel' awed even his enemies. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. He towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. His spoken and written prose sparkled with wit, insight, grand visions and petty malice. He united Germany and transformed Europe like Napoleon before and Hitler after him but with neither their control of the state nor command of great armies. He was and remained a royal servant. This new biography explores the greatness and limits of a huge and ultimately destructive self. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore the most remarkable figure of the nineteenth century, a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. A political genius who combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining. 606 $aStatesmen$zGermany$vBiography 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1871-1888 615 0$aStatesmen 676 $a943.08/3092 700 $aSteinberg$b Jonathan$0460969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789688603321 996 $aBismarck$93835299 997 $aUNINA