Bismarck and the Development of Germany: The Period of Unification, 1815-1871

Otto Pflanze

Published by Princeton University Press 1963

Bismarck and the Development of Germany

The Period of Unification, 1815-1871

Otto Pflanze

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221571

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This political history of Germany assesses Bismarck's role in the events which paved the way for the catastrophes of the twentieth century, showing how Bismarck first established the association between German nationalism, Prussian militarism, and Hohenzollern authoritarianism. The author is completing a second volume, "The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1890." Volume I has been awarded the McKnight Foundation Humanities Award.

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"Of the scholarly works on German history published in the United States during the decade of the 1960's, none is likely to be more enduring than the first volume of Bismarck and the Development of Germany by Otto Pflanze. . . . This is history conceived on a grand scale and executed with an expert hand."---Allan Mitchell, Central European History

"This is an admirable book, a credit to American scholarship, by far the best treatment of Bismarck to appear in English. A product of the most meticulous investigation, it is beautifully researched. More than just another biography of Bismarck, it is also a perceptive history concentrating on the interaction between domestic developments and Bismarck's diplomacy and wars up to 1871."---Louis L. Snyder, Saturday Review

"By virtue of his superb mastery of the vast Bismarck literature and by his own sound historical sense, Mr. Pflanze cuts through many of the ideological controversies which have hitherto obscured rather than illuminated Bismarck. Nor is this focus narrowly biographical. Rather he seeks to grasp both the man and the forces with which he had to contend, and the result is a clear view of the interplay of German internal development with Bismarck's diplomacy and wars. . . . Mr. Pflanze's work will long endure as an excellent study of the public career of an extraordinary statesman."---Fritz Stern, New York Times

"German émigré training and the critical involvement of the interested outsider have combined to produce some notable achievements in the American scholarship on German history prosecuted since the war, and on the basis of this first volume it can be confidently anticipated that Otto Pflanze's study of Bismarck will rank with the best of them. For here is historical biography in the approved grand manner, the public life of a major figure set solidly in the political relations and movements of the time, recounted with the judiciousness that is a blend of detachment and understanding, and presented with the articulated clarity and the modulations of gravity and whimsicality that are the marks of good writing. . . . It is now the standard authority for Bismarck's early regime."---Leonard Krieger, Political Science Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE FOOTNOTES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: The Bismarck Problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
BOOK ONE. THE YEARS OF PREPARATION, 1815-1858
Chapter 1. The Stream of Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. The Internal Functions of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3. The External Functions of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 4. The Strategy of Realpolitik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
BOOK TWO. THE YEARS OF DECISION, 1858-1863
Chapter 5. The Utility of German Nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6. Petersburg and Paris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 7. Germany at the Crossroads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 8. Thrust, Parry, Riposte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Chapter 9. A Period of Dictatorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Chapter 10. The Liberals and the Masses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
BOOK THREE. THE YEARS OF TRIUMPH, 1864-1867
Chapter 11. The Conquest of Schleswig-Holstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Chapter 12. The Magnetism of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Chapter 13. The Conquest of Northern Germany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Chapter 14. The Conquest of Prussia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Chapter 15. The German Balance of Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
BOOK FOUR. THE YEARS OF FULFILLMENT, 1867-1871
Chapter 16. Bridges over the Main Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Chapter 17. Failure of the National Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Chapter 18. Diplomatic Prelude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Chapter 19. Origins of the War of 1870 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Chapter 20. A National War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	458
Chapter 21. Winning the South Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	480
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
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