Abstract
In 1859 Julius Froebel wrote: ‘The German nation is sick of principles and doctrines, literary existence and theoretical greatness.’ What it wants is Power, Power, Power! In that year, Otto von Bismarck became the Prussian ambassador to St Petersburg and the mobilisation of Russian forces in response to a threat by Napoleon III to the Rhineland revealed weaknesses. The process of German unification had begun.
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Abrams, L., Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 (Routledge, Lancaster Pamphlets Series, 1995).
Eyck, E., Bismarck and the German Empire (Allen & Unwin, 1950).
Medlicott, W.N., Bismarck and Modern Germany (Athlone Press, 1965).
Pflanze, O., Bismarck and the Development of Germany (Princeton, 1963).
Stiles, A., The Unification of Germany, 1815–1890 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989).
Taylor, A.J.P., Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (Hamish Hamilton, 1955).
Waller, B., Bismarck and Germany, 1862–1890 (Longman, 1986).
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Miller, S. (1997). The Unification of Germany 1862–71. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Red Globe Press, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13789-3_14
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