The German Empire 1870-1918 (Modern Library Chronicles) - Hardcover

Sturmer, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679640908 ISBN 13: 9780679640905

Verlag: Modern Library, 2000

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Chronicles the rise of Germany from new nation to world power, recounting the militarization, industrial growth, and convergence of forces that pushed the European balance of power over the brink and led to two world wars.

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Michael Stürmer has been professor of history at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1973 and is currently chief correspondent for Springer-Verlag in Berlin. He has been a visiting research fellow at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Sorbonne, and the University of Toronto.

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In <i>The German Empire,</i> 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.<br> <br>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.<br><br>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.

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• Verlag: Modern Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679640908
• ISBN 13: 9780679640905
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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