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• catalog abstract "This study in the genre of political biography is revisionist. Bismarck emerges as a somewhat more conservative traditionalist than much of the national liberal historiography has depicted him. Moreover, the national orientation in much of the literature on the history of Central Europe during the nineteenth century is also implicitly challenged. Downgrading somewhat the founding of the German Reich of 1871, traditionally viewed as Bismarck's greatest achievement, the author treats this episode as but one of many throughout Bismarck's long career wherein his efforts to build a federative, multiethnic Mitteleuropa encountered many setbacks or otherwise necessitated at best the acceptance of many limited achievements that cumulatively produced a quite incomplete Middle-European system stretching from the northern seas to the mideast. From this perspective, the author sees the limited victory of Bismarck's Prussia over Franz Joseph's Austria in the War of 1866 as the critical event in the entire history of Bismarckian politics. His policy until then was to achieve a restructuring of the German Confederation on the basis of a joint Austro-Prussian leadership in Mitteleuropa. After Franz Joseph decided in early 1866 that a war was preferable to the limited concessions sought by Bismarck, the Prussian armies failed to inflict on the main Habsburg host the Cannae that the general staff planned for 3 July. Thereafter, Bismarck's task became more difficult than ever. His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle. If Bismarck left his neo-Wilhelmian successors an incomplete system upon his retirement from office, the leadership of the Reich after 1890 was incompetent to continue the great chancellor's work. Berlin never again made the Mitteleuropa conception the central theme of its policy until the great war that Bismarck aimed to prevent with his system. In challenging the commonly held notion of Mitteleuropa historians about "continuity" from the Bismarckian Reich to the "New Order" of the Nazis, the author stresses the much older reichisch and Confederate "continuities" that are evident in Bismarckian system-building. Rejecting the "democratic-moralistic" interpretations of Professor Fritz Fischer and others about German Mitteleuropa imperialism, the author focuses on the "structural-functional" processes of Bismarckian decision-making and system-building through the largely prenational mechanisms of a diplomatic-constitutional federative polity that had developed over many centuries but that neither set of his Wilhelmian antagonists understood or appreciated. In truth, no European statesman - not even one in Vienna - rivaled Bismarck in understanding the baroque complexities of Middle-European politics.".
• catalog contributor b4920131.
• catalog coverage "Austria Relations Germany.".
• catalog coverage "Europe, Central Relations Germany.".
• catalog coverage "Europe, Central Strategic aspects History 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "Germany Politics and government 1871-1888.".
• catalog coverage "Germany Relations Austria.".
• catalog coverage "Germany Relations Europe, Central.".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "1. The Problem. The Fischer School. The "Younger Generation" of Historians and the "Young Turks" The Gesamtdeutsch School of Historians. The Kleindeutsch-Grossdeutsch Problem. Sybel and Bismarck -- 2. The Preparation (1815-62). The Early Years (April 1815-May 1851). At the Bundestag in Frankfurt (May 1851-March 1859). To St. Petersburg and Paris (March 1859-September 1862) -- 3. Minister-President Bismarck and the German Crisis (1862-66). Bismarck-Rechberg-Schmerling (September 1862-August 1865). Bismarck versus Belcredi (August 1865-June 1866). Moltke's "Small Victory" -- Bismarck's Diplomatic Defeat (June-August 1866) -- 4. Problems in Postwar Reconstruction (1866-67). The Structuring of New North German and Austrian Systems to Serve Divergent Middle-European Perspectives (September 1866-January 1867). The Bavarian "Bridge" to Austria (January-March 1867). The Effects of the Luxemburg Crisis (April-June 1867) -- 5. The Struggle between the Two Middle-European Chancellors (1867-69).".
• catalog description "8. The Origins of the "Second Reichsgrundung" (1875-79). The Effects of the Eastern Crisis (June 1875-June 1878). The Congress of Berlin and Its Aftermath (June 1878-August 1879). The Final Struggle for the Dual Alliance (August-October 1879) -- 9. An Incomplete Mitteleuropa (1879-88). The Problem of Military Coordination and Economic Cohesion (October 1879-March 1884). Bismarckian "Colonialism" and Weltpolitik as Mitteleuropapolitik in a New Form (March 1884-September 1886). Bismarck's Last Eastern Imbroglio (September 1886-June 1888) -- 10. The Transition from Bismarckianism to Wilhelmianism (1888-98).".
• catalog description "Bismarck's Initial Response to Beust's Onslaught: Putting into Play All Pieces of the Middle-European Puzzle (June 1867-July 1868). The First Intervention against Austro-Slavism: Bismarck and the Germanic "New Nationalism" (July-October 1868). The Nadir in the Postwar Austro-Prussian Relationship (October 1868-January 1869) -- 6. Toward a Partnership of the Two Middle-European Chancellors: The Austro-Prussian Rapprochement and Gleichartigkeit in Mitteleuropa (1869-71). The First Signs of a Permanent Thaw in Austro-Prussian Relations (August 1869-July 1870). The Effects of the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870-May 1871). The Origins and Outcome of the Austro-Prussian Conferences at Gastein, Ischl, and Salzburg (May-November 1871) -- 7. The Heyday of Liberalism (1871-75). The Unresolved Issue for Mitteleuropa: Liberal or Conservative Reich-Austrian Gleichartigkeit (November 1871-November 1872). The Kulturkampf Crisis (November 1872-February 1874). "War Scares" (January 1874-June 1875).".
• catalog description "From this perspective, the author sees the limited victory of Bismarck's Prussia over Franz Joseph's Austria in the War of 1866 as the critical event in the entire history of Bismarckian politics. His policy until then was to achieve a restructuring of the German Confederation on the basis of a joint Austro-Prussian leadership in Mitteleuropa. After Franz Joseph decided in early 1866 that a war was preferable to the limited concessions sought by Bismarck, the Prussian armies failed to inflict on the main Habsburg host the Cannae that the general staff planned for 3 July. Thereafter, Bismarck's task became more difficult than ever. His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna.".
• catalog description "In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle. If Bismarck left his neo-Wilhelmian successors an incomplete system upon his retirement from office, the leadership of the Reich after 1890 was incompetent to continue the great chancellor's work. Berlin never again made the Mitteleuropa conception the central theme of its policy until the great war that Bismarck aimed to prevent with his system. In challenging the commonly held notion of Mitteleuropa historians about "continuity" from the Bismarckian Reich to the "New Order" of the Nazis, the author stresses the much older reichisch and Confederate "continuities" that are evident in Bismarckian system-building.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (554-602) and index.".
• catalog description "Rejecting the "democratic-moralistic" interpretations of Professor Fritz Fischer and others about German Mitteleuropa imperialism, the author focuses on the "structural-functional" processes of Bismarckian decision-making and system-building through the largely prenational mechanisms of a diplomatic-constitutional federative polity that had developed over many centuries but that neither set of his Wilhelmian antagonists understood or appreciated. In truth, no European statesman - not even one in Vienna - rivaled Bismarck in understanding the baroque complexities of Middle-European politics.".
• catalog description "This study in the genre of political biography is revisionist. Bismarck emerges as a somewhat more conservative traditionalist than much of the national liberal historiography has depicted him. Moreover, the national orientation in much of the literature on the history of Central Europe during the nineteenth century is also implicitly challenged. Downgrading somewhat the founding of the German Reich of 1871, traditionally viewed as Bismarck's greatest achievement, the author treats this episode as but one of many throughout Bismarck's long career wherein his efforts to build a federative, multiethnic Mitteleuropa encountered many setbacks or otherwise necessitated at best the acceptance of many limited achievements that cumulatively produced a quite incomplete Middle-European system stretching from the northern seas to the mideast.".
• catalog extent "623 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Bismarck and Mitteleuropa.".
• catalog identifier "0838635121".
• catalog isFormatOf "Bismarck and Mitteleuropa.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Rutherford, [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Bismarck and Mitteleuropa.".
• catalog spatial "Austria Relations Germany.".
• catalog spatial "Europe, Central Relations Germany.".
• catalog spatial "Europe, Central Strategic aspects History 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Europe, Central.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Politics and government 1871-1888.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Relations Austria.".
• catalog spatial "Germany Relations Europe, Central.".
• catalog subject "943.308/092 B 20".
• catalog subject "Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898.".
• catalog subject "DD218.2 .H34 1994".
• catalog subject "Nationalism Europe, Central.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Problem. The Fischer School. The "Younger Generation" of Historians and the "Young Turks" The Gesamtdeutsch School of Historians. The Kleindeutsch-Grossdeutsch Problem. Sybel and Bismarck -- 2. The Preparation (1815-62). The Early Years (April 1815-May 1851). At the Bundestag in Frankfurt (May 1851-March 1859). To St. Petersburg and Paris (March 1859-September 1862) -- 3. Minister-President Bismarck and the German Crisis (1862-66). Bismarck-Rechberg-Schmerling (September 1862-August 1865). Bismarck versus Belcredi (August 1865-June 1866). Moltke's "Small Victory" -- Bismarck's Diplomatic Defeat (June-August 1866) -- 4. Problems in Postwar Reconstruction (1866-67). The Structuring of New North German and Austrian Systems to Serve Divergent Middle-European Perspectives (September 1866-January 1867). The Bavarian "Bridge" to Austria (January-March 1867). The Effects of the Luxemburg Crisis (April-June 1867) -- 5. The Struggle between the Two Middle-European Chancellors (1867-69).".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. The Origins of the "Second Reichsgrundung" (1875-79). The Effects of the Eastern Crisis (June 1875-June 1878). The Congress of Berlin and Its Aftermath (June 1878-August 1879). The Final Struggle for the Dual Alliance (August-October 1879) -- 9. An Incomplete Mitteleuropa (1879-88). The Problem of Military Coordination and Economic Cohesion (October 1879-March 1884). Bismarckian "Colonialism" and Weltpolitik as Mitteleuropapolitik in a New Form (March 1884-September 1886). Bismarck's Last Eastern Imbroglio (September 1886-June 1888) -- 10. The Transition from Bismarckianism to Wilhelmianism (1888-98).".
• catalog tableOfContents "Bismarck's Initial Response to Beust's Onslaught: Putting into Play All Pieces of the Middle-European Puzzle (June 1867-July 1868). The First Intervention against Austro-Slavism: Bismarck and the Germanic "New Nationalism" (July-October 1868). The Nadir in the Postwar Austro-Prussian Relationship (October 1868-January 1869) -- 6. Toward a Partnership of the Two Middle-European Chancellors: The Austro-Prussian Rapprochement and Gleichartigkeit in Mitteleuropa (1869-71). The First Signs of a Permanent Thaw in Austro-Prussian Relations (August 1869-July 1870). The Effects of the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870-May 1871). The Origins and Outcome of the Austro-Prussian Conferences at Gastein, Ischl, and Salzburg (May-November 1871) -- 7. The Heyday of Liberalism (1871-75). The Unresolved Issue for Mitteleuropa: Liberal or Conservative Reich-Austrian Gleichartigkeit (November 1871-November 1872). The Kulturkampf Crisis (November 1872-February 1874). "War Scares" (January 1874-June 1875).".
• catalog title "Bismarck and Mitteleuropa / Bascom Barry Hayes.".
• catalog type "text".