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Gold and iron : Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the building of the German Empire
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- Creator
- Fritz Stern
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First Vintage Books edition
- New York : Vintage Books, 1979, c1977
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 620 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780394740348, 0394740343
- OCLC
- ocm04775649
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [601]-602.
- 1: The hazardous rise, 1859-1871 -- First encounter: Junker and Jew -- Bismarck's struggle for survival -- Between the throne and the gallows -- A banker's share in Bismarck's triumph -- Bismarck's purse and Bleighroder's place -- The third war -- Hubris in Versailles -- 2: Banker for an empire -- A new baron in a New Berlin -- Imperial style in politics and economics -- Greed and intrigue -- The fourth estate -- The prince enriched -- The world of banking and diplomacy -- Rumania: the triumph of expediency -- The reluctant colonialist -- The fall of Bismarck -- 3: The anguish of assimilation -- The Jew as patriotic parvenu -- The hostage of the new anti-semitism -- The embittered end -- The fall of a family