[PDF] The German Empire 1871 1918 eBook

Author : Katja Hoyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1643138383

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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.

Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :

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Jefferies offers a historiographical overview of more than a century of works on the German empire, presenting varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war. He also explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismark and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Author : Hans-Ulrich Wehler
Publisher : Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK ; Dover, N.H. : Berg Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1985-03
Category : History
ISBN :

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In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of World War I there emerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians who took a critical 'revisionist' view of the Bismarckian Empire and began to analyze the political development of the Hohenzollern monarchy against the background of the country's social and economic power structures. Professor Wehler became one of the most prominent exponents of this approach and his structural analysis of the 'Kaiserreich' created a considerable stir when it was first published. It has since, with its incisive and rigorous analysis, become a classic in the field.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1134229143

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Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the book also covers: how Bismarck consolidated his regime the Wilhelmian period the factors that led to the outbreak of World War One. With a new introduction and updated further reading section – including a guide to useful websites – this book gives students the ideal introduction to this key period of German history.

Author : James Retallack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019160710X

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The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; and its avant-garde artists reflected the ferment in European culture. But Germany also played a decisive role in tipping Europe's fragile balance of power over the brink and into the cataclysm of the First World War, eventually leading to the empire's collapse in military defeat and revolution in November 1918. With contributions from an international team of twelve experts in the field, this volume offers an ideal introduction to this crucial era, taking care to situate Imperial Germany in the larger sweep of modern German history, without suggesting that Nazism or the Holocaust were inevitable endpoints to the developments charted here.

Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :

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Jefferies offers a historiographical overview of more than a century of works on the German empire, presenting varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war. He also explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismark and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Author : Daniel J. Hughes
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 070062600X

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An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire—and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe. Written by two of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871–1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning. Consequently, the authors focus on theory and practice leading up to World War I and upon the variety of adaptations that became necessary as the war progressed—with unique insights into military theorists from Clausewitz to Moltke the Elder, Moltke the Younger, Schlichting, and Schlieffen. Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871–1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world. The book will prove indispensable to an understanding of the Imperial German Army.

Author : Volker Rolf Berghahn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845450113

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A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of social, economic and political data. Written with the English-speaking student in mind, this book is likely to become a widely used text for this period, incorporating as it does twenty years of further research on the German Empire since the appearance of Hans-Ulrich Wehler's classic work.