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Bismarck : the iron chancellor / Volker Ullrich ; with a foreword by Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck ; translated by Timothy Beech.
- Title
- Bismarck : the iron chancellor / Volker Ullrich ; with a foreword by Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck ; translated by Timothy Beech.
- Author
- Ullrich, Volker, 1943-
- Publication
- London : Haus, 2008.
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- Description
- viii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the 'Iron Chancellor', a reactionary and a militarist whose unification of Germany in 1871 set Europe on the road to the disaster of the First World War. Yet as this balanced and comprehensive study shows, the real Bismarck was a much more complicated figure than this traditional stereotype suggests. The 'Founder of the Reich' had been an opponent of liberal German nationalism; after the wars of 1866 and 1870, Bismarck spent the rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe to protect the Reich he had created; and the reactionary enemy of socialism introduced comprehensive health and unemployment insurance for German workers."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Life & times
- Uniform Title
- Otto von Bismarck. English
- Life & times (London, England)
- Alternative Title
- Otto von Bismarck.
- Subject
- Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
- Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
- Bismarck, Otto von
- 1815-1888
- Statesmen > Germany > Biography
- Hommes d'État > Allemagne > Biographies
- Politics and government
- Statesmen
- Prussia (Germany) > Politics and government > 1815-1870
- Germany > Politics and government > 1871-1888
- Prusse (Allemagne) > Politique et gouvernement > 1815-1870
- Allemagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1871-1888
- Germany
- Germany > Prussia
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-160) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Ferdinand von Bismarck -- Early influences 1815-32 -- The 'Crazy Junker' 1832-47 -- Bismarck's path to politics 1847-51 -- Diplomatic apprenticeship 1851-62 -- Prime Minister in waiting 1862-3 -- I have beaten all of them, every single one! 1863-7 -- The Founder of the Reich 1866-71 -- Consolidation and preservation 1871-85 -- The long departure from power 1885-90 -- The Last Years 1890-8 -- Assessment.
- ISBN
- 9781904950844
- 1904950841
- OCLC
- 181138879
- SCSB-12581612
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library