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Book Synopsis"The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880, Volume II" opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent. Questions arose. What new goals would the man of blood and iron" now pursue? What new conquests might be necessary to satiate a people s
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes, pg. ix*Introduction to Volumes Two and Three, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 2*CHAPTER ONE: Consolidation and Cleavage, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO: Bismarck's Character, pg. 32*CHAPTER THREE: Wealth and Social Perspective, pg. 67*CHAPTER FOUR: Nationalism and National Policy, pg. 93*Introduction, pg. 128*CHAPTER FIVE: An Improvised Executive, pg. 129*CHAPTER SIX: Bismarck and Parliament, pg. 154*CHAPTER SEVEN: The Kulturkampf, pg. 179*CHAPTER EIGHT: Climax of the Liberal Era, pg. 207*CHAPTER NINE: Reconstruction in Foreign Relations, pg. 246*Introduction, pg. 280*CHAPTER TEN: Economic Catastrophe and Liberal Decline, pg. 281*CHAPTER ELEVEN: Transition in Domestic Policy, 1875-1876, pg. 322*CHAPTER TWELVE: The "Chancellor Crisis" of 1877, pg. 355*CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Antisocialist Statute, pg. 391*CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Balkan Crisis and Congress of Berlin, pg. 415*Introduction, pg. 444*CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Renewal of the Interventionist State, pg. 445*CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Triumph of Protectionism, pg. 469*CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Negotiation of the Dual Alliance, pg. 490*CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: End of the Liberal Era, pg. 511*Index, pg. 539
