The Iron Kingdom

This history traces the state of Prussia from its Brandenburg and Hohenzollern origins around 1600 through military monarchy, Enlightenment reform, industrialization, and the unification of Germany, to the formal abolition of the Prussian state in 1947. Clark follows the army, the bureaucracy, religious minorities, and the tension between local estates and a central crown, then the nineteenth-century wars and the place of Prussia inside the Kaiserreich and the Third Reich. The book is a political and cultural history of one German state, not a life of Frederick the Great.

Bound in grey cloth cover blocked with an image in silver and red. Red slipcase blocked in blue on front with an image.