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What were the political commitments of the writers of the pre-WWI history you read? Could they have an incentive to characterize things this way?
by mkoubaa 9mo ago
What were the political commitments of the writers of the pre-WWI history you read? Could they have an incentive to characterize things this way?
- aerhardt 9mo agoMargaret MacMillan is a modern historian with a liberal world view and no ideological incentive to defend Bismarck, and in her phenomenal work The War that Ended Peace (2013) she largely supports this view.
- jyounker 9mo agoThe summation aligns with everything I've ever read from anyone about Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm. Behind the Bastards has a pretty good couple of episodes on this little corner of history: https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/part-one-kaiser-wilhelm-the-saddest-warlord-in-history/id1373812661?i=1000457226901 https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/part-one-kaiser-wilhel...