THE GERMAN EMPIRE. Share full article. July 19, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. ... Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine.

First off, Konta makes the rather flimsy excuse that the treaty the North German Confederation signed (including Prussia, the core state of the Confederation), which guaranteed Belgian neutrality in ...

Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871 – 1918, by Katja Hoyer (History Press, 272 pages, $27.95). T he 1860s were a tumultuous time. Many Americans associate the decade ...

Historians differ on the dates but it held on until around 1862 when Otto von Bismarck began to unify all those bits and pieces of Germany into the German Empire, which existed from 1871 until the ...

It was 1881, and German chancellor Otto von Bismarck had a serious socialist problem. ... duchies and territories formed the German Empire. But thanks to the German constitution, ...