Pt. 1. The Setting. 1. The Background. 2. Bismarck -- Pt. 2. The Defeat of Austria. 3. The Constitutional Conflict and the Liberal Opposition. 4. The Road to Koniggratz -- Pt. 3. The North German Confederation. 5. The Creation of the North German Confederation, 1866-67. 6. Bismarck, Napoleon and the Southern States. 7. The Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany, 1870-71 -- Pt. 4. The Economic and Constitutional Context, 1871-90. 8. The Second Reich: A Hybrid State. 9. The Financial Crash of 1873 and the Great Depression -- Pt. 5. Domestic Politics. 10. The Kulturkampf and the Decline of the National Liberals. 11. The Conservative Empire -- Pt. 6. German Foreign and Colonial Policy. 12. Germany and Europe, 1871-90. 13. The Creation of the German Colonial Empire -- Pt. 7. Assessment. 14. Bismarck in Myth and Reality -- Pt. 8. Documents
Notes
Previous ed.: 1986
Bibliography: p128-137. _ Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [128]-137) and index