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Jonathan Steinberg


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March 08, 1934

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Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of European History and former Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A. B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

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Bismarck: A Life

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European History and Europe...

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Why Switzerland?

3.66 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1976 — 15 editions
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Fountain Pens: The Collecto...

3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions
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All or Nothing, The Axis an...

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Napoleon

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Fountain Pens: Their Histor...

3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002
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Frederick the Great

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Midas Investing:: How You C...

3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Identifying Fountain Pens: ...

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“None of these definitions completely describes Bismarck’s authority. As a royal servant, he fits Weber’s first category: his power rested on tradition, ‘the authority of the “eternal yesterday”’. As a”
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life

“Apparently in spite of his bombastic speech from the throne eleven months earlier, he had discovered there was a ‘power on earth that [could] transform the natural relationship between prince and people … into a conventional constitutional relationship’—fear.”
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life

“How astonished are those who hear”
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life

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