Under Bismarck’s astonishingly adroit handling, the Great Po
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Under Bismarck’s astonishingly adroit handling, the Great Power system was going to be dominated by Germany for two whole decades after 1870; all roads, diplomats remarked, now led to Berlin. Yet as most people could see, it was not merely the cleverness and ruthlessness of the imperial chancellor which made Germany the most important power on the European continent.
chapter: The Wars of German Unification