The Age of Bismarck

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• The Age of Bismarck
• German Unification and the Growth of German Power

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Otto von Bismarck
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Bismarcks creation
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A judgment on Napoleon IIIThe First Mountebank
Dictator

• The careers of Napoleon III and Hitler have
  shown how far even a bare minimum of ideas and
  resources, when backed by a nations
  reminiscences or passions, can carry a man in the
  political desert of direct democracy and the
  books written about Napoleon III show how loath
  posterity is to accept the stark truth about such
  a man.
• Source Sir Lewis Namier, Vanished Supremacies
  (London, 1958) 83.

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Empire proclaimed
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Dreikaiserbund
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Disraeli Gladstone
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Alexander II
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Congress of Berlin
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Francesco Crispi
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Bismarck goes
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Bismarcks SuccessorsWilliam II, von Tirpitz,
von Caprivi
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Railways