Otto von Bismarck: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Studies of Bismarckās life include Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life (2011); Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany, 2nd ed., 3 vol. (1990); Alan Palmer, Bismarck (1976); George O. Kent, Bismarck and His Times (1978); Fritz Stern, Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichrƶder, and the Building of the German Empire (1977, reissued 1987), a dual biography of Bismarck and his banker, based on archival sources; and Lothar Gall, Bismarck, the White Revolutionary, 2 vol. (1986, reissued 1990; originally published in German, 1980), a somewhat revisionist analysis regarding the authorās positive assessment of Bismarckās first two decades of power. Otto von Bismarck, Reflections and Reminiscences, ed. by Theodore S. Hamerow (1968), is a compilation of translated excerpts from Bismarckās memoirs and is of interest as the highly literary work of a political genius, although its historical accuracy is suspect.
Interpretive histories of 19th-century Germany that provide insights into Bismarckās role in the events of the period include James J. Sheehan, German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (1978, reissued 1995), dealing with two liberal parties and their evolution during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmian periods; Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Windthorst: A Political Biography (1981), an examination of the life of the leader of the Catholic Centre Party and a major opponent of Bismarck; George F. Kennan, The Decline of Bismarckās European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875ā1890 (1979), a traditional diplomatic history stressing the stability created by Bismarckās diplomacy; Vernon L. Lidtke, The Outlawed Party: Social Democracy in Germany, 1878ā1890 (1966), an exploration of the 12 years of the Bismarckian period when the Social Democratic Party was illegal; David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984), a neo-Marxist interpretation of late 19th-century Germany, stressing its similarity to other Western nations; and Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The German Empire, 1871ā1918 (1985, reissued 1997; originally published in German, 1973), a critical study of the Bismarckian period stressing the shortcomings of his achievement.
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| Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - How Otto von Bismarck Started The Franco-Prussian War. | Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal United Services Institute - Episode 9: The Iron Chancellor: Otto von Bismarck's Unification of Germany. | May 06, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Dismantling Bismark. | Mar 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Bismarck: A Life. | Nov 07, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Otto von Bismarck. | Jul 22, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "Bismark and The German Empire". | Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: My Hero - Otto von Bismarck. | May 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Age of the Sage - Otto von Bismarck and German unification. | Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - Death of Otto von Bismarck. | Jun 13, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 08, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Bismarck and the New German Empire. | Jan 23, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Apr 26, 2018 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Jul 22, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Firstworldwar.com - Otto von Bismarck. | Jun 20, 2013 | ||
| Added Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life (2011). | Feb 09, 2012 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 23, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 06, 2003 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 09, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |