Grant Robert. Bismarck

London: Constable and Company LTD., 1919. — 534 p. — (Makers of the Nineteenth Сentury, edited by Basil Williams)No subject would be found more adapted for an easy polemic at this time than a life of Bismarck. But this volume is not of that kind. Mr. Grant Robertson justly claims that it is not a mere product of the war, but that it is based on exhaustive study and ideas already formed in the period of calm before this storm burst upon the nations. Here is a book that calls up Bismarck as a living human being, extenuating, it is true, none of his grossness or his arrogance, but nevertheless deeply appreciative of all that was great in him, and all that was tender and sincere. Based on such a foundation of insight and sympathy, it can pronounce a judgment on the value of his life to Germany and the world, which can no more be ignored by a German than by an Englishman. Nay more, history written in this spirit and on such a subject is, in fact, most illuminating in our attempts to form a sound judgment on these critical times and the causes of this war. For the upheaval of the last three years cannot be traced back simply to the events of a few weeks in July and August 1 914, but to influences extending back for decades. Of these influences, the most powerful both on German
character and statecraft, and on the conception of German policy held in other countries, is without question that of Bismarck.General Editor's Preface
Author's PrefaceGermany and the German Problem, 1815-1848The Junker Politician
Education and Entry into Politics
The Junker Politician, 1848-1851The Making of a Statesman, 1851-1862Bismarck at Frankfurt, 1851-1859
Petersburg and Paris, 1859-1862The Minister-President, 1862-1867The Constitutional Conflict, the Polish Question, and the German Problem
Schleswig-Holstein, the Treaty of Vienna, and the Convention of Gastein, 1863-1865
The Rupture with Austria — The Treaty of Prague, 1865-1866The Chancellor of the North German ConfederationThe Making of the North German Confederation
The War with France, 1866-1870
The Treaty of Frankfurt
The Unification of Germany, 1870-1871The Imperial Chancellor, 1871-1890The Empire, the System, and the Chancellor, 1871-1878
The Kulturkampf, 1871-1878
Foreign Policy, 1871-1879
The New Era — Home Policy, 1878-1888
Foreign Policy
The Triple Alliance
The Colonial Problem
France and Russia, 1879-1888
The Last Phase
Bismarck's Resignation, March 1888 - March 1890AppendixesThe Ems Dispatch
The Reinsurance Treaties of 1884 and 1887Chronological Table