Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (Questions and Analysis in History)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES PREFACE......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
1 THE FORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE......Page 10
Source A: from a letter by Bismarck to Otto Manteuffel, April 1856.......Page 20
Source D: from a letter from Sir Robert Morier, a British diplomat in Vienna, to Lady Salisbury, 24 June 1866.......Page 21
Worked answer......Page 22
Source H: from the writings and letters of the Prussian historian Heinrich von Treitschke.......Page 23
Worked answer......Page 24
2 DOMESTIC POLICIES, 1871–90......Page 26
Source A: an extract from Ludwig Bamberger’s Herr von Bismarck, published in 1868.......Page 37
Source D: a description of Bismarck by Lady Emily Russell, wife of the British ambassador, 1880.......Page 38
Worked answer......Page 39
Source G: from a memorandum written by the Prussian Minister for Public Worship and Education,......Page 40
Questions......Page 41
Worked answer......Page 42
3 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POLICIES, 1871–90......Page 44
Source B: from the Reinsurance Treaty of 1887.......Page 55
Worked answer......Page 56
Source D: a report, relayed to London, of a conversation between Bismarck and the British Ambassador in Berlin, 1871.......Page 57
Source H: from the memoirs of Herbert Bismarck, son of the Chancellor.......Page 58
Worked answer......Page 59
4 DOMESTIC POLICIES, 1890–1914......Page 60
Source C: a coded telegram from the Kaiser to Caprivi on an interview with the King of Saxony, 8 September 1894.......Page 71
Questions......Page 72
Source G: from a speech made by the Kaiser to recruits in the German army (18 April 1891).......Page 73
Source K: an interpretation of the Kaiser by Sigmund Freud, 1932.......Page 74
Worked answer......Page 75
5  FOREIGN AND IMPERIAL POLICIES, 1890–1914......Page 78
Source A: the view of General von Waldersee, 19 December 1891.......Page 91
Source D: advice given to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1899 by Admiral Tirpitz.......Page 92
Worked answer......Page 93
Source H: a report, from the Austrian Ambassador in Berlin to the Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary, 5 July 1914. This is his summary of a conversation he had…......Page 94
Questions......Page 95
Worked answer......Page 96
6  ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 1871–1914......Page 98
Source A: population growth in Germany (in ‘ooos).......Page 104
Source D: index of Germany’s exports and imports by volume (1913=100).......Page 105
Questions......Page 106
Source I......Page 107
Source j: from a report by a British Royal Commission on labour conditions in Central Europe, 1893.......Page 108
Worked answer......Page 110
7 WAR AND COLLAPSE, 1914–18......Page 112
Source A: the view of the German historian, Friedrich Meinecke, in 1914.......Page 119
Source C: from a letter from Friedrich Meinecke to a friend, 21 October 1918.......Page 120
Questions......Page 121
NOTES......Page 124
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 130
INDEX......Page 132