Gold and Iron
Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
27 July 1990
Summary
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award
“A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review
“I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work of original scholarship, both exact and profound. It restores a buried chapter of history and penetr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394740348 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0394740343 |
| Author: | Fritz Stern |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 1990 |
| Weight: | 737g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Fritz Stern
Fritz Stern (1938–2016) was a Seth Low Professor of History and former provost at Columbia University, and a recognized authority on modern Europe. He held three degrees from Columbia, where he taught for over four decades. He also taught at Cornell, Yale, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Konstanz in West Germany, and as Élie Halévy Professor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. He received a DLitt from Oxford in 1985 and the Leopold-Lucas Prize from the Evangelical-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen in 1984. His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present; Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Politics of Cultural Despair; and The Failure of Illiberalism.
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