Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor

Bismarck
Volker Ullrich, Timothy Beech
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 196pg
30 Sep 2021 UK
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9781913368371
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Otto von Bismarck (1815 98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessible biography, the real Bismarck was far more complicated than the stereotype. A leading historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, Ullrich demonstrates that the Founder of the Reich was in fact an opponent of liberal German nationalism. After the wars of 1866 and 1870, Bismarck spent the rest of his career working to preserve peace in Europe and protect the empire he had created. Despite his reputation as an enemy of socialism, he introduced comprehensive health and unemployment insurance for German workers. Far from being a man of iron and blood, Bismarck was in fact a complex statesman who was concerned with maintaining stability and harmony far beyond Germany s newly unified borders. Comprehensive and balanced, "Bismarck" shows us the post-reunification value of looking anew at this monumental figure s role in European history."
Volker Ullrich studied history, literature, philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg and in 1988 he became a research fellow at Hamburg's Foundation for 20th-century Social History.Since 1990 Ullrich has been the head of the political section of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit. In 1992 he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism,[2] and, in 2008, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena. Ullrich is the author of several major historical works, including a monumental biography of Hitler the first volume of which was published in German in 2013.
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ISBN-13: 9781913368371
Published: 30 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Haus Publishing
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 196

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