Personality and Power: The Case of Otto Von Bismarck
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- ORIGINALLY RECORDED October 20, 2011
Jonathan Steinberg, professor of modern European History at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania, discusses his book, Bismark: A Life.
This meeting is part of a series hosted with the National History Center featuring prominent historians who will examine the events and times that shaped foreign policy as we know it today.
SPEAKER:
Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Bismarck: A Life
PRESIDER:
Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor of English History and Culture and Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Director, National History Center, American Historical Association
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Bismarck and Richelieu are perhaps some of my most favorite statesmen to study. Playing Germany in Civilization and Europa Universalis I try to attempt to apply their lessons to my playthroughs. ;)
Bismarck, the kind of German that made Germany a major power.
Just a blessing for his country, one could wish all nations where blessed with such political leaders.
He wanted and got three short wars to unite Germany and then, when Germany was united and grew stronger all the time, interestingly wanted to avoid war. Specifically some "minor stuff" in the Balkans that could force Germany to fight both on the Eastern and Western front. This he said and acted by 40 years before WW1! Unlike other leaders this one knew the limit and what was doable and not it seems...
Thank you for the upload. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Absolutely great discussion on Bismarck..."His power rested on William the first" unlike the modern democracies...great
Meli Matanatoto Wilhelm I. wasn't anything than pathetic - he didn't want to be a prince, he did not want to open fire on Berlin civilians in 1848 (which would have been a good decision to keep...), he avoided any political thought of his own, he especially hated to be Emperor of the half united Germany and he cried in public ever so often, the the ministry of interiour developed the most elaborate compendium of royal excuses. Without a brute like Fürst Bismarck he (W.1) would have committed suicide as fast as he could. When his death in 1888 came close, and his son and postdecessor Friedrich was diagnosed cancer of the throat the same year, all of Prussia & Europe knew: without the Iron Chancellor watching, young Willies "transcredible exploits" will spray lots of fecies into the ventilators. In 1890 though Kaiser Wilhelm II. snatched that very power his grandfather never had and invited all of Germanies neighbours to the great turd-a-palooza of WWI long before its actual start.
That hindsighted "discussion" on Bismarck died off the same moment as it touched the Hitler-thread.
@@11Kralle Man, your sentence structure and spelling skills are pretty pathetic! If you can't speak, read, and write English, GIVE UP AND TRY SOME OTHER LANGUAGE, YOU FOOL!!!!! 😠😠😠😠😠
Thanks for Uploading.
oh, and what a manner he tells us about Bismarck! You get so involved and interested, gotta love it!
Thanks for this posting.....
This is my favorite channel on UA-cam.
2:01 epic zoom in
PSA! DO NOT PAY FOR INSTAPWN. They will take your money for nothing!
Damn. They really went Tarantino on him
excellent. This will absolutely serve my Bismarck test tomorrow.
Here here Good show Sir !
Thank you for uploading this riveting talk. Prof..Steinberg's eruditon is as astounding as Gordon Craig's, whose book The Germans triggered in me an interest for things German. Merkel, a remarkable lady, is taking the tremendous pressure with great equanimity and one hopes she will soon find a workable solution to the present EU crisis which has repercussions for the whole world. H Kohl is probably enjoying his retirement tucking into his favorite saumagen. Got to watch that paunch, Herr Kohl.
lol I think I like Wilhelm 1 looking after your workers and providing pensions> I like ready about Bismark since I was 11 yrs old I don't know why but just the name sounds strong and unbreakable
Any time UA-cam gives “context”, you are being manipulated by them.
All right, let's discuss some opening questions for the book and then proceed to explain how this man can be blamed for every evil short of the original sin.
By most of the comments I thought I was the only one that couldn’t see that.
It's always quite predictable what conclusions the CFR members will draw. This was no exception.
Shane Reilly
No one said this Shane.
Co-incidentally just start reading Steinberg's book, it is absorbing. (UK)
hmmm after years of being told the cfr doesnt exist here it is
@rolomail yupp its the only reason to like the guy! cause Kissinger liked him xD
The audience here is much better behaved than in any of my seminar classes, myself included. Given the chance to do it over, I'd be better behaved in class.
The ah questions ah are ah longer ah than ah the ah answers.
So how many members are in our democracy?
I am Grace Von Bismarck
Yes a very dry old fashioned format, (so therefor boring to the shallow minded) however it is a very good dry and insightful speech. It was better than expected although I do not blame Bismarck at all for Hitler or WW I.
If he had lived longer he would have prevented WW I and therefor Hitler. Note however the chilling truth of the fact that racism grows like bacteria when economic woes appear (Angela Merkels 'austerity'): just as today Islamophobia is the new 'Jew hate' as in the 1930's.
We live in very dangerous times! (if you really are crazy enough to worry about the 'threat' of a 'European Caliphate rather than our deceitful Elite who abuse security issues to actually strip us of our liberty, our free press and privacy then don't bother answering (to hell with ''Charlie'; the new Goebbles; another tool of the increasingly 'liberated' oligarchy)
ever seen V for Vendetta ?
Well you just got my vote too. Well said and you are named after one of my favorite heroes. Great choice and I say that as one whose Jew marrying German mom lived through WW II but who like me criticizes the theocratic apartheid system we now call Israel. Humans first! Bigots last!
This is aimed at 'Thesilentstorm'fronter!
Yes you mean he is the perfect example of the Dunning Kruger effect! Yes indeed!
I'm calm
Had Kaiser followed the German wouldn't have been humiliated in treaty of Versailles
starts c. 3.00.
the interviewer is brutal.
5.17min: "without the charisma of a great orator" - he lost me. There are three cornerstones of the development of the high-german language: Luthers bible translation, Goethes written works and Bismarcks letters and speeches. Sorry, but there are very good historians on german history (not few of them from the UK)! They usually speak fluent german and their way more critical books on biographic matters usually don't end on Dr. Kissingers "to be recommended"-list.
Too bad, since at 5:58 he mention "the charm of (Bismark's) written and spoken prose."
Patience was once more a virtue...
Luthers bible translation is rather incorrect example in this context; beauty of a language does also men honesty but translation by Luther has not much in common with it, I'm afraid
11Kralle he is a jew, what else would you spect?
based 240p talk
1:40 Body language by this point of the book commercial just puts this in the "don't bother watching" category . I was hoping for a lecture not a commercial .
If you type "Bismarck wikiquote". You going to see how many "Misattributed'" to Bismarck.
Comparing him with current leader, he would be more dislikes than Trump, but he was a genius. Being good orator, presentation means nothing when running a good state, maybe its like food, that things that taste good are bad for you in the long term ex Trump, Obama. Trumps made the economy awesome but failed at public speaking and argument because he isn't about that
Hahahahaha! There could be no modern Bismarck because there's no contemporary analogue to the Hohenzollern monarchy, eh? Perhaps you forget about that odious hydra in Brussels; the EU Commission and Eurocracy.
The Hohenzollern is centered around the tiny state of Prussia. The EU is nowhere close to being as vulnerable nor poor as Prussia was. You're deluded; drank the kool aid and all you can think about is anti germanic propaganda they taught you since ww1 like it's going out of style
55:20 completely wrong. Germany was defeated in the First World War, the German lines had collapsed and the Allied armies would have invaded German soil had not the Germans sued for an armistice. The German Army was a defeated force.
harmlessdrudge1986 indeed, but allied troops never fought on german soil, and the german people felt shocked when told that they had 'lost'.
O yea. Why then had the USA had to come to the rescue of the nearly defeated Brits and mutinying French? Of course victors write history.
errrr. wrong. the only thing that stopped the german army were british agents aka banking interests using their assets inside of germany. using a socialist to infiltrate the union of a manufacturing plant during wartime to strike and end production of weapons vital for creating additional forward movement is why germany had to quit. but trust me, they had bullets. just not artillery and fuel. there would be no successful invasion. just the long slow "seige" which actually continued even after the peace treaty. killed hundreds of thousands if i remember correctly. britain and america are evil
A millitary mistake by both sides
for not utilizing tank warfare
in a timely fashion.
Alas, tanks were in the infancy of
development.
Germany effectively won the eastern front of the First World War.
Independent? C'mon?
boring....