6. Military and International Relations
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Overview: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany, 1866-1890   |   1. Demographic and Economic Development   |   2. Society   |   3. Culture   |   4. Religion, Education, Social Welfare   |   5. Politics I: Forging an Empire   |   6. Military and International Relations   |   7. Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization

Further Reading: Military and International Relations

Imanuel Geiss, German Foreign Policy, 1871-1914, London, 1976.

Horst Gründer, Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien, 2nd ed., Paderborn, 1991.

William O. Henderson, The German Colonial Empire, 1884-1919, London, 1993.

Klaus Hildebrand, Deutsche Außenpolitik 1871-1918, Munich, 1989, 2nd ed. 1994.

Isabel V. Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany, Ithaca, 2005.

Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914, London, 1980.

Birthe Kundrus, Moderne Imperialisten. Das Kaiserreich im Spiegel seiner Kolonien, Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna, 2003.

Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Großmachtstellung und Weltpolitik. Die Außenpolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1870-1914, Frankfurt a.M. and Berlin, 1993.

Arne Perras, Carl Peters and German Imperialism, 1856-1918: A Political Biography, Oxford, 2004.

Michal Pesek, Koloniale Herrschaft in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Expeditionen, Militär und Verwaltung seit 1880, Frankfurt a.M., 2005.

Gerhard Ritter, The Sword and the Scepter: The Problem of Militarism in German History, 4 vols., Coral Gables, FL, 1969-88 (orig. German 1956-68).

Woodruff D. Smith, The German Colonial Empire, Chapel Hill, 1978.

George Steinmetz, The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa, Chicago, 2007.

Bruce Waller, Bismarck at the Crossroads: The Reorientation of German Foreign Policy after the Congress of Berlin, 1878-1880, London, 1974.

Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Bismarck und der Imperialismus, Cologne, 1969.

Lora Wildenthal, German Women for Empire, 1884-1945, Durham, N.C., 2001.

Heinz Wolter, Bismarcks Außenpolitik 1871-1881. Aussenpolitische Grundlinien von der Reichsgründung bis zum Dreikaiserbündnis, Berlin, 1983.


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