The War and DemocracySeton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
History
The War and Democracy
Seton-Watson, R. W. (Robert William)
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Nationalism -- Europe; World War, 1914-1918
SEELEY. _Life of Stein_. 1878. 3 vols. (30s.) (The standard work in English
on reorganisation of Prussia after Napoleon.)
BISMARCK. _Reflections and Reminiscences_. (The guiding mind in Germany,
1862-1888.) 2 vols. 1898. (Can only be bought second-hand.)
HEADLAM. _Life of Bismarck_. 1899. (6s.) (Heroes of the Nations.)
HOLLAND. _Germany to the Present Day_. 1913. (2s. net.) A useful short
history if supplemented by other books.
POWICKE. _Bismarck_. 1914. (6d.) (People's Books.) (Excellent.) The two
great modern German historians are Treitschke and Sybel, for whom see
Gooch's _History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century_, pp. 140-53.
Treitschke's history is not available in English: Sybel's has been
translated under the title, _The Founding of the German Empire by William
I._ vols., New York, 1890-1891.
2. GERMANY UNDER WILLIAM II.
BÜLOW. _Imperial Germany_. 1914. (2s. net.) (The mind of the German
Government.)
SAUNDERS. _The Last of the Huns_. 1914. (1s. net.) (In spite of its
objectionable title this volume, by the late correspondent of the _Times_
in Berlin, is written with fairness and lucidity, and contains much
valuable information.)
HENRI LICHTENBERGER. _Germany and its Evolution in Modern Times._ 1913.
(10s. 6d net.) (Translated from the French: suggestive, especially on
economic questions and on the movements of German thought.)
W.H. DAWSON. _The Evolution of Modern Germany_. 1908. (5s. net.) (The best
general account of modern Germany in English.)
C. TOWER. _Germany of To-day._ 1913. Home University Library. (Is.) (Good.)
C. SAROLEA. _The Anglo-German Problem_. (2s.) (A useful popular account of
German political conditions and German policy.)
_Board of Education Special Reports_, vols. iii. and ix. (3s. 3d. and 2s.
7d.) Articles by Dr. M.E. Sadler on German Education.
_Memoirs of Prince Hohenlohe_. (Imperial Chancellor, 1894-1900.) 2 vols.
1906. (24s. net.)
The Britannica War Books. _Germany_. (2s. 6d. net.) By W. Alison Phillips
and J.W. Headlam. (A somewhat carelessly abridged reprint from the standard
article in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_.)
3. GENERAL BOOKS
H.S. CHAMBERLAIN. _The foundations of the Nineteenth Century_. English
translation. 2 vols. 1910. (25s. net.) (This book had an immense vogue in
Germany, and was particularly recommended by the Kaiser to his subjects.
It is full of interesting, if ill-founded, generalisations tending to
emphasise the importance of Race and to glorify the German race.)
THOMAS. _German Literature_. (6s.)
ROBERTSON. _German Literature_. 1914. Home University Library. (1s.)
HERFORD AND OTHERS. _Germany in the Nineteenth Century_. Manchester. 1912.
(2s. 6d.) Essays on different aspects of German development.
BERNHARDT. _Germany and the Next War_. 1912. (2s. net.) (The philosophy and
aims of Gorman militarism worked out.)
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