The Rise of Empires: 1870-1919
The History of Europe from the Franco-Prussian War Until the Paris Peace Conference
Nonfiction, History, European General
| Author: | Charles Downer Hazen | ISBN: | 4057664107916 |
| Publisher: | Musaicum Books | Publication: | June 3, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Charles Downer Hazen |
| ISBN: | 4057664107916 |
| Publisher: | Musaicum Books |
| Publication: | June 3, 2019 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
"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."
"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."
