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Bismarck's imperialism 1862–1890

Hans-Ulrich Wehler
- 01 Aug 1970 - 
- Vol. 48, Iss: 1, pp 119-155
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This article is published in Past & Present.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 78 citations till now.

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The second image reversed: the international sources of domestic politics

TL;DR: The international system is not only an expression of domestic structures, but a cause of them as discussed by the authors, and two schools of analysis exploring the impact of international system upon domestic politics (regime types, institutions, coalitions, policies) may be distinguished: those that stress the international economy, and those which stress political-military rivalry, or war.
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The Reemergence of “Peripheral Nationalisms”: Some Comparative Speculations on the Spatial Distribution of Political Leadership and Economic Growth

TL;DR: In fact, the nationalism of the Scots, the Basques, Catalans, Croats, Flemish, and Quebecois is far more powerful than that of the Alsatians, Bretons, South Italians, and the Occitents.
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Breaking with orthodoxy: the politics of economic policy responses to the Depression of the 1930s

TL;DR: In the same systemic shock, the collapse of the international economy in 1929, different countries formulated different policy responses as mentioned in this paper under different political formulations, and experimented with demand-stimulus fiscal policy.
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German Colonialism: A Short History

TL;DR: The history of German colonialism can be found in this article, where the author charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics.
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King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908

Jean Stengers, +1 more
TL;DR: The first years of the Congo Independent State, under the personal government of King Leopold, lasted from 1885 to 1908 as discussed by the authors, when only a tiny part of the territory of the state was occupied.