Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 4 With the present volume of the German History, which reproduces the greater part of the third volume of the original, Treitschke leaves behind the series of European congresses and conferences which supplemented the Congress of Vienna, and introduces his readers to the domestic politics of the States united in the Germanic Federation and the intimate life of their courts and peoples. The narrative, rich in passages characterised by profound insight, picturesque description, and warm feeling, strikingly illustrates the great breadth of his survey, and his consummate art as a writer. Occasionally it also brings into prominence that psychic blindness and unconquerable prejudice, bordering at times on malignity, which vitiate his judgments upon some other countries, and especially Great Britain, and which for non-German readers mar so much of his work, viewed as pure history. This one-sidedness is exemplified at the outset by his story of the proceedings of the Verona congress, called in August, 1822, to consider the unrest in Europe. The congress was particularly important from the standpoint of Great Britain, since it marked her separation from the Continental Powers on a fundamental question of political principle. The congress did not get beyond the affairs of Spain, which was in the throes of revolution, and whose South American colonies had declared their independence, and had already reconstructed themselves on a republican basis. France wished to win the Powers for a strong attitude on the Spanish question, and sought their sanction to a declaration of war upon her restless neighbour, nominally for the suppression of a movement menacing to her own tranquillity and security, yet not without the thought of reasserting her traditional influence in the peninsula and reviving her military prestige. It was upon this question that Great Britain finally went apart from the allies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.