Iron kingdom : the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 / Christopher Clark.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: xviii, 775 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674031968; 0674031962Subject(s): Prussia (Germany) -- History | Germany -- Prussia | Prussia (Germany) -- HistoryGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 943 | 943.07 LOC classification: DD389 | .C53 2008| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 689-761) and index.
The Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg -- Devastation -- An extraordinary light in Germany -- Majesty -- Protestants -- Powers in the land -- Struggle for mastery -- Dare to know! -- Hubris and nemesis : 1789-1806 -- The world the bureaucrats made -- A time of iron -- God's march through history -- Escalation -- Splendour and misery of the Prussian Revolution -- Four wars -- Merged into Germany -- Endings.
Offers a history of the vanished state from its beginning as a group of territorial fragments to its rise to become one of the most powerful nations in Europe, detailing Prussia's influential and critical role in modern times and its dissolution by the Allies after World War II.
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