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The Wars of German Unification (Modern Wars)
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Keywords: wars, modern, german, unification
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-02-27
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0340580178
ISBN-13: 9780340580172
Book Description:
Taken together, three wars served to unify Germany and fundamentally altered the balance of power in 19th-century Europe: the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of 1864; the "Six Weeks’ War" of 1866; and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. They marked the establishment of Prussian hegemony in central Europe, the creation of the Bismarckian Reich in 1871, and, as a by-product, the reduction of Habsburg influence and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire. Showalter gives a full account of the international context as well as of the wars themselves and their consequences.
Dennis Showalter is a Professor of History at Colorado College, Colorado, USA
Taken together, three wars served to unify Germany and fundamentally altered the balance of power in 19th-century Europe: the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of 1864; the "Six Weeks’ War" of 1866; and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. They marked the establishment of Prussian hegemony in central Europe, the creation of the Bismarckian Reich in 1871, and, as a by-product, the reduction of Habsburg influence and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire. Showalter gives a full account of the international context as well as of the wars themselves and their consequences.
Taken together, three wars served to unify Germany and fundamentally altered the balance of power in 19th-century Europe. Showalter gives a full account of the international context as well as of the wars themselves and their consequences.
"This work is a well-argued analysis of how that unification came about and the impact on both Germany and the rest of Europe."—Relevance
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