German Sea-power: Its Rise, Progress, and Economic Basis - Hardcover

Hurd, Sir Archibald Spicer; Castle, Henry Northrup

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0837145139 ISBN 13: 9780837145136

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc, 1971

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...his position has naturally prevented him from explaining his point of view as to his country's deserts and aspirations, but we shall be able to form some idea of it if we examine the opinions of those of his people who are animated by the sentiments which we call " national pride" in ourselves, but are apt to call " national vanity " in others. The patriotic German, who is familiar with his country's history, knows that, five or six hundred years ago, his forefathers monopolized the markets and policed the seas of Northern and Western Europe. He realizes keenly that Germany's maritime and industrial progress was first checked, and then retarded for centuries, by political division and internecine and foreign wars. Possibly he still remembers that great crescendo of victory in which Prussia smothered Denmark, then overthrew Austria in a single battle, and finally, at the head of the kindred Teutonic States, humbled France in the dust, and welded Germany together in one indivisible whole. Even if he does not remember it as part of his own personal experience, all its vivid and stimulating episodes have been a thousand times impressed upon his mind by schoolmaster, politician, historian, and journalist. That after this tremendous martial achievement he should regard his country as the mistress of the continent of Europe is no matter for surprise. But he sees, too, that the Germany of Luther and Goethe, of Ranke, Liebig, Helmholz, and Mommsen, of Bismarck and Moltke, has become also the Germany of Krupp, Siemens, Rathenau, Ballin, and Gwinner; that the products of German industry, the fruits of an unexampled application of the discoveries of science to the processes of manufacture, have been carried by German ships to the remotest ends of the earth;...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0837145139
• ISBN 13: 9780837145136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388