Jonathan Steinberg (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern Europea

Bismarck

A Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 153mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 910g
• ISBN-13: 9780199642427
• ISBN-10: 0199642427
• Artikelnr.: 35468342

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania, and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of Yesterday's Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of the German Battle Fleet (1965), Why Switzerland? (2nd ed.1996) and All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943 (classic edition 2002). He was also the principal author of The Deutsche Bank and its Gold Transactions during the Second World War (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Bismarck's 'Sovereign Self'
2: Born Prussian and What that Meant
3: Bismarck: The 'Mad Junker'
4: Bismarck Represents Himself, 1847-1851
5: Bismarck as Diplomat, 1851-1862
6: Power
7: 'I have beaten them all! All!'
8: The Unification of Germany, 1866-1870
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's Legacy: Blood and Irony
Notes
Bibliography
Index