| Title | : | The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 |
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| Author | : | Charles Downer Hazen |
| Release | : | 2019-01-02 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | European History, Books, History, Military History |
| Size | : | 1291894 |
| "The fifty years that have elapsed since the Franco-Prussian War possess a unity that is quite exceptional among the so-called "periods" of history. They constitute a period of German ascendancy in Europe, a ascendancy acquired by force, maintained by force, an dedicated to the perpetuation and the extension of the rule of force -- that is, to the great principle that might makes right. Within that era are included the rise and the fall of the German Empire, whose history was summarized in a lapidary phrase pronounced by President Poincaré at the opening of the Conference of Paris "It was born in injustice; it has ended in opprobrium." |
