The leading Powers of Germany -- Austria and Prussia -- finding that the popular ... have called summarily upon Denmark to revoke the Constitution she has enforced over Schleswig, have waited ...

Denmark has previously been willing to sell its overseas territories, offering the Danish West Indies to Prussia in 1864 and to the US in 1867. A deal was eventually struck during the First World ...

Neither Austria nor Prussia can possibly wish for a serious war with Denmark, and we suspect that their present policy, however dangerous, is pursued from a sole desire, In consequence of their ...

Denmark would then cede the Philippine islands to Germany — then eager to expand its far eastern empire — in exchange for parts of Schleswig, lost to Prussia in the Second Schleswig War in 1864.

On Valentine's Day, the most romantic day of the year, here is the history of St Catherine's Chapel near Abbotsbury, whose namesake St ...

when Denmark lost a quarter of its territory to Prussia. “With that defeat we lost our ambition to be a world superpower,” he said. “It humbled us. Our government began to strengthen our ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

The origins can be traced to Bismarck’s “kulturkampf” (“culture war”) of 1871 to 1878, which sought to purge Catholic influences in Prussia ... Panama and Denmark in the name of U.S ...

COLUMN. The United States, following misguided policies since Reagan, is on the verge of losing control over the world.

The “cult of Bismarck” in Germany is instructive on the cultural basis of Trump’s tariffs and, relatedly, cultural nationalism devoid of an economic rationale.