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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: WORLD EMPIRES

Volume 4

THE GERMAN EMPIRE 18671914

THE GERMAN EMPIRE 18671914

And the Unity Movement (Volume Two)

WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON

First published in 1919 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd

This edition first published in 2018
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1919 William Harbutt Dawson

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ISBN: 978-1-138-47911-1 (Set)
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ISBN: 978-1-351-05991-6 (Volume 4) (ebk)

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THE GERMAN EMPIRE

18671914

AND THE UNITY MOVEMENT

BY

WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON

IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. II.

London

GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD

RUSKIN HOUSE . MUSEUM STREET

FIRST PUBLISHED 1919
SECOND IMPRESSION 1966

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no portion may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher.

CONTENTS OF CHAPTERS

Protection a National Tradition, 1The Customs Union, 2The Free Trade Movement, 3Causes of the Return to Protection, 6The Bubble Company Era, 7Industrial Depression in the Seventies, 9Bismarcks Fiscal Theories, 10Changes in the Government, 11The Imperial Taxation System, 15Formation of the Free Economic Union, 17Introduction of the Tariff Bill, 20Attitude of the National Liberals, 21Counter-action of the Clericals, 22The Franckenstein Compromise, 23Entrance of Hamburg and Bremen into the Customs Union, 27The Tariff Amended, 30The Railway Nationalization Movement, 31.

Commercial Development after the War of 18701, 34Discovery of the Social Question, 37Bismarck and Social Reform, 38His Attitude towards Questions of Work and Wages, 39The Social Insurance Laws, 41Attitude of the Radicals and Socialists, 44Labour Law Reforms, 45The Organization of the Imperial Province (Alsace-Lorraine), 46The Party of Protest, 49Grant of Modified Autonomy, 50Failure to Conciliate the Population, 53The Polish Question, 53The Danish Question in North Schleswig, 56Moltkes Plea for a Strong Army, 59The Peace Strength refixed on a Septennial Basis, 61German Sea Power after 1871, 65Imperial Expenditure, Debt, and Taxation, 66The Beer, Tobacco, and Brandy Taxes, 68Tobacco and Brandy Monopoly Projects Defeated, 70Stagnation of Political Life, 71The (Ministerial) Substitute Law of 1878, 72Bismarck Misses the Support of the National Liberals, 73Herr von Puttkamer and the Manipulation of Elections, 74Attack upon the Independence of State Officials, 75Retirement of Herr von Bennigsen, 76The Lasker Condolence Resolution, .

Count Beust on the Events of 1866 and 1870, 79Attitude of the Powers towards France, 79M. Thiers on French Policy, 80Bismarcks Fear of Isolation, 81German Relations with Russia, 82Overtures to Austria-Hungary, 84Count Beust succeeded by Count Andrassy, 84The Drei-Kaiser-Bund, 85Italy joins in a Quadruple Entente, 87The Recovery of France, 89Count Harry Arnim, 89Bismarcks Policy towards France, 89M. Thiers gives place to Marshal MacMahon, 91Activity of the French Clericals, 92Quarrel between Bismarck and Arnim, 93Arnims Dismissal and Humiliation, 94Prince Hohenlohe succeeds to the Paris Embassy, 95Germany and the Carlist Excesses, 96French Military Measures, 98The Is War in Sight? Scare, 99Bismarcks Complicity Discussed, 101Intervention of the Czar and Gortchakoff, 101Maintenant la paix est assure, 102Bismarck Proposes to Resign, 104Relations between Germany, France, and England, 105French Colonial Enterprises, 108Proclamation of a Protectorate in Tunis, 109Attitude of the British Government, 109A Franco-German Entente, 110General Boulanger, 111Dangerous War Agitation in France, 111The German Army Bill of 18867, 112Subsidence of the Unrest in France, 114.

Lord Aberdeens Prediction of the Effects of the Crimean War, 116Changes in the Balkans, 116Revival of the Eastern Question, 117The German Way of Looking at Things, 118Revolt of Herzegovina and Bosnia in 1875, 118The Andrassy Note, 119Spread of the Revolt, 119The Berlin Memorandum of May, 1876, 119Disraeli, his Characteristics, 120The Anti-Russian Movement in England, 122The Bulgarian Atrocities, 123Russia and British Interests, 124Outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, 126Division of Opinion in England, 127Treaty of San Stefano, 127The Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Turkish Secret Treaties, 128The Berlin Congress and Treaty, 129Territorial Changes Effected by the Treaty, 130Bismarcks Part in the Berlin Congress: the Honest Broker, 132Era of German Influence in Turkey begins, 135Signs of Russian Estrangement from Germany, 136Bismarck and Count Schouyaloff, 137Conclusion of the Dual Alliance (Germany and Austria-Hungary) of 1879, 138Conversion into the Triple Alliance by the Addition of Italy, 142Approaches to Russia, 144The Skiernievice Agreements, 146Anglo-Russian Frictions in the Far East, 147Unsettlement of Bulgaria, 149The Egyptian Question, 151The Financial Collapse, 152Military Mutinies and Arabis Rebellion, 154Bismarck wants Great Britain and France to Settle Egypt alone, 155Bombardment of Alexandria, 156Bismarcks Attitude towards England Changes, 158The Anglo-German Colonial Rivalries, 161Did Bismarck advise England to Annex Egypt? 162The Mahdi Insurrection and Pacification of the Soudan, 165.

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