Germany, officially the German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), is a country in Central Europe. A parliamentary constitutional monarchy composed of twenty-seven constituent states ruled by the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty, the Empire is considered by m
While occupying key businesses in a trans-local fashion within the Qing Empire, the Ningbo overseas trade and commercial businesses also returned. They did so partly using the smaller “imperial” powers in their attempts to secure a share in the vast domestic and East Asian sea trade, e.g. ...
Unification did not mean unity. The German Empire was divided in religious, political, and ethnic or national terms. The maps below give a sense for the geography of religious groups by showing (in the first map) the relative densities of Christian denominations, and (in the second map) by ...
German Confederation: Map of the German Confederation, circa 1815, following the Congress of Vienna. The territory of the Austrian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia not within the confederation is shown in light green. Toward a German Identity The surge of German nationalism, stimulated by the experie...
The West Africa Conference (1884鈥 1885) in Berlin, pursuant to its Final Act, was the starting point for partitioning Africa into colonies, and it constituted the German Empire's access to world politics. After an economic crisis lasting from 1882 to 1886, the German Empire took possession ...
In the late 1870s and early 1880s, various colonial societies were organized all over Germany to persuade Chancellor Bismarck to embark on a colonial policy. On 24 April 1884, Bismarck ultimately changed his policy and annexations of territories would be protected by the German Empire and would...
Taken as a whole, the treaties concluded after World War I redrew the borders of Europe, carving up the former Austro-Hungarian Empire into states like Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. As Neiberg puts it: “Whereas in 1914, you had a small number of great powers, after 1919 you have...
Empireas the Channel ports did 100 or 200 years ago.” Chamberlain had Ger-many in mind: “A Germany established in the Low Countries and domi-nating France would hold the heart of the British Empire at its mercy”(CP 122 (25)).Even though the foreign secretary admitted he was the ...
German Empire - National Liberals, Unification, Prussia: The first Bismarckian system broke down between 1877 and 1879. In 1877 Bismarck, still at odds with the Centre, offered to make Bennigsen, the leader of the National Liberals in the Reichstag, a Pr
German Empire - Franco-Prussian War, Unification, Bismarck: Though the war was perhaps not planned by Bismarck, it was certainly not unwelcome to him. It solved at a stroke the problem of southern Germany, since all the southern German states at once ack