Download or read book Blood and Iron written by Katja Hoyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.
Download or read book The German Empire written by Michael Sturmer and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael Stürmer blends high politics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled command of military and economic developments to tell the story of Germany’s breakneck rise from new nation to Continental superpower. It begins with the German military’s greatest triumph, the Franco-Prussian War, and then tracks the forces of unification, industrialization, colonization, and militarization as they combined to propel Germany to become the force that fatally destabilized Europe’s balance of power. Without The German Empire’s masterly rendering of this story, a full understanding of the roots of World War I and World War II is impossible.
Download or read book The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples written by Herwig Wolfram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Germanic peoples and their kingdom between the 3rd and 8th centuries, as they invaded, settled in and transformed the Roman empire.
Download or read book The German Empire written by Michael Sturmer and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars. In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, Benjamin Disraeli observed that the world was witnessing "a greater political event than the French revolution of last century. . . . [T]here is not a diplomatic tradition which has not been swept away. . . . The balance of power has been entirely destroyed." Disraeli's powers of prophecy, in this as in much else, were formidable. The Age of Bismarck saw Germany become the dynamo of Europe--its preeminent economic and military power, its scientific and educational nerve center, and a place of tremendous artistic ferment. But there would be no simple spell to return to their bottles the genies unleashed by these vast forces, and Michael Stürmer traces the convergence of people and events that sent Europe's fragile balance of power over the brink and into conflict. No war was fought for less purpose or with greater slaughter than the First World War which, in Michael Stürmer's assured hands, arrives as the next-to-last act of an epic drama all the more tragic for the blazing brilliance of its opening scenes. Though the drama's final horrible act, the Second World War, takes place offstage from The German Empire, it is impossible to understand its origins without the history Michael Stürmer tells here with such elegance and insight.
Download or read book A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Germanic Empire written by Samuel Astley Dunham and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the German Empire written by William Dawson and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT the opening of the nineteenth century the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation still existed, after a thousand years of chequered life. Long decadent, it was now moribund, however, and perpetuated only in name an august sovereignty which at one time extended over a large part of the European Continent. Diverse in race, language, religion, and political forms, having no common bond in administration, law, justice, or military organization, the many parts of the imperial dominion were kept together in firm union only so long as they were subject to a strong rule, and when once the centre of authority had become weakened, decline and disintegration ran their certain course...
Download or read book A History of the Germanic Empire written by S. A. Dunham and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Germany prior to the dissolution of the Roman power, the present compendium has no concern: the history of that period is, or ought to be, familiar to every reader. Our object is to contemplate that celebrated country as an Empire; but as its establishment must be traced to an era considerably anterior, a few pages by way of introduction may properly open the main subject...
Download or read book German History 1789 1871 written by Eric Dorn Brose and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized. This book overcomes these divisions, offering a wide-ranging account of this revolutionary century and skillfully combining narrative with analysis. Its lively style makes it very accessible and ideal for all students of nineteenth-century Germany.
Download or read book The Historians History of the World Germanic empires concluded written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Epochs of German History written by J. Haller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1930 this book discusses the critical moments in German history, with a view to surveying the development of the German nation and an attempt to understand the events of the 1920s with reference to significant chapters in Germany history from the past.
Download or read book History of the Germanic Empire written by Samuel Astley Dunham and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Germany written by Mary Platt Parmele and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short History of Germany is a work by Mary Platt Parmele. It presents the origins, setbacks, and triumphs of the German nation up until the twentieth century.
Download or read book A History of Germany written by Friedrich Kohlrausch and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Popular History of Germany from the Earliest Period to the Present Day written by Wilhelm Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples written by Herwig Wolfram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Germanic peoples and their kingdom between the 3rd and 8th centuries, as they invaded, settled in and transformed the Roman empire.
Download or read book Germany s Empire in the East written by David Hamlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.
