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Chapter 6
Military, International Relations, and Colonialism
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Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (1866-1890)
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Preliminary Peace of Nikolsburg (July 26, 1866)
Negotiations at Nikolsburg on July 26, 1866 (c. 1870)
Benjamin Disraeli on the “German Revolution” (February 9, 1871)
Three Emperors’ Meeting in Berlin (September 5–12, 1872)
Bismarck Tells the British Ambassador that Germany has Achieved its Legitimate Objectives (February 11, 1873)
Three Emperors’ Meeting in Skierniewicz (September 15-17, 1884)
Foreign Ministers of Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary (September 15–17, 1884)
“The Nightmare of Coalitions”: Bismarck on the Other Great Powers (1879/1898)
Anton von Werner, The Congress of Berlin (1881)
Dual Alliance with Austria (October 7, 1879)
Three Emperors’ Treaty with Austria and Russia (June 18, 1881)
Triple Alliance with Austria and Italy (May 20, 1882)
European Royalty Meets in Homburg (1883)
Secret Reinsurance Treaty with Russia (June 18, 1887)
Bismarck’s Speech on the Prussian Indemnity Bill (September 1, 1866); Text of the Prussian Indemnity Law (September 14, 1866)
Memories of Sedan Day Festivities in the 1870s (Retrospective Account, 1930)
Veterans’ Evening Discussions in a Small Pomeranian Town (1870s)
Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Social Ethos of Prussian Officers (1879)
Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of the Prussian General Staff (1886)
Military Exercises for Prussian Recruits around 1880 (no date)
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Cabinet Order on the Officer Corps (March 29, 1890)
Bourgeois Society and the Officer Corps (1883)
Military Barracks in Dresden (1877)
The Ideology of the Officer Corps (1889)
“We Germans Fear God and Nothing Else in the World!”: Bismarck Addresses the Reichstag (February 6, 1888)
“We Germans Fear God but Nothing Else in the World!” Bismarck in the Reichstag Session of February 6, 1888 (1901)
Alexander Friedrich Werner, Bismarck Leaving the Reichstag on February 6, 1888 (1892)
Ludwig Bamberger on Bismarck’s Martial Appearance in the Reichstag (1891)
Anton von Werner, Prince Bismarck at the Bundesrat Desk, Giving a Speech (1888)
Friedrich Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies? (1879)
“The South Seas are the Mediterranean of the Future” (July 13, 1884)
Friedrich Kapp, National Liberal Reichstag Deputy, Speaks out against “Colonial Chauvinism” (October 22, 1880)
“Cultural Progress in the Congo” (1884)
“Ten Little Negroes” (1885)
Society for German Colonization, Founding Manifesto (March 28, 1885)
Colonies in South Africa (1890s)
Aims of the German Colonial Society (December 19, 1887)
“The Greedy Boy” (January 10, 1885)
Hoisting the German Flag at Mioko, German New Guinea (1884)
Station Chief and Guinean Workers, German New Guinea (1887)
Bismarck on “Pragmatic” Colonization (June 26, 1884)
Royal Patent of Patronage for Carl Peters’ Society for German Colonization (February 27, 1885)
“Pictures from our Colonies” (1897)
“Hotel zur Stadt” in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa (c. 1905)
August Bebel’s Reichstag Speech against Colonial Policy in German East Africa (January 26, 1889)
Carl Peters on Socialist Opposition to Colonial Policy (January 9 and 16, 1886)
Carl Peters (c. 1900)
August Bebel Accuses the Colonialist Carl Peters of Two Murders (1896)
Poster Advertising the Berlin Trade and Industrial Exhibition (1896)
Caricature of the “Colonial Peters Exhibition” (1896)
Hoisting the German Flag in Cameroon (1884)
Reactions to the Visit of Samson Dido, of Cameroon, to Germany (1886)
A Cook’s Apprentice from Cameroon (1888)
West African Members of the Police Force in the German Colony of Cameroon (1890s)
Berlin Women “Crazed” by Nubian Visitors (1878)
“The Nubians in Berlin’s Zoological Garden” (1878)
Diary of Abraham Ulrikab: A Labrador Inuit Gives an Account of His Experiences in Europe (1880)
Two Inuit Families from Labrador in a Völkerschau (1880)
Diary of Johan Adrian Jacobsen: Labrador Inuits on Display (1880–81)
Johan Adrian Jacobsen (19th century)
Route Taken through Europe by Abraham Ulrikab and His Family in 1880–81
Tobias, One of the Inuit in a Völkerschau in Hamburg (1880)
Criticism of the “Human Exhibition” in Berlin (October 21, 1880)
Graphic Pictures of Native Life in Distant Lands (1888)
Rudolf Virchow, Report from the Special Meeting in the Zoological Gardens on November 7, 1880: “Eskimos from Labrador” (1880)
The Fisk Jubilee Singers Tour Germany (1877–78)
Poster for a Ceylonese Exhibit at a “Human Zoo” (1883)
Poster Advertising “Carl Hagenbeck’s 1885 Ceylon Expedition” (1885)
“A Cannibal Dance at the Leipzig Zoological Garden” (1885)
Poster Advertising a Völkerschau Featuring “Australian Cannibals” (1885)
Politics I: Forging an Empire
Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization