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 a
For most people Bismarck is the man of "blood and iron"; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an itellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his day
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 a
This volume provides an up-to-date and accessible guide to the diversity of current thinking on Imperial Germany. * Offers a historiographical overview, spanning more than a century of works on th
In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael Sturmer blends high politics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled command of military and economic developments to tell the story of Germany’s b