PAN-GERMANISM

BY

ROLAND G. USHER, PH.D.

Associate Professor of History
Washington University, St. Louis

"The patriotism of nations ought to be selfish."
MADAME DE STAËL, Of Germany.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1913

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TO
THAT ENERGETIC, CAPABLE ADMINISTRATOR
THAT ENTHUSIASTIC STUDENT OF CONDITIONS
THAT BEST OF COMRADES
THAT DEAREST OF FRIENDS
MY WIFE

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CONTENTS

I.

 THE CAUSES OF GERMAN AGGRESSION

II.

 THE MYTH OF ENGLISH PREPONDERANCE IN EUROPE

III.

 THE FATAL WEAKNESS OF IMPERIAL ENGLAND

IV.

 FRANCE AND RUSSIA AS THE GERMAN SEES THEM

V.

 THE STRENGTH OF IMPERIAL GERMANY

VI.

 ENGLAND AND FRANCE AS THEY SEE THEMSELVES

VII.

 THE GERMAN VIEW OR THE ECONOMIC SITUATION

VIII.

 PREREQUISITES OF SUCCESS

IX.

 FIRST STEPS

X.

 THE SIGNIFICANT POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES

XI.

 FIRST DEFEATS

XII.

 VICTORY FROM DEFEAT: THE TRIPOLITAN WAR

XIII.

 THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRIPOLITAN WAR

XIV.

 THE GREAT REPULSE: THE BALKAN CRISIS

XV.

 THE JUSTIFIABILITY OF PAN-GERMANISM

XVI.

 THE PROBABILITY OF THE SUCCESS OF
PAN-GERMANISM.
I. INTERNAL WEAKNESSES

XVII.

 THE PROBABILITY OF THE SUCCESS OF
PAN-GERMANISM.
II. EXTERNAL WEAKNESSES

App

 APPENDIX
THE SPEECH OF PREMIER BORDEN OF CANADA, ADVOCATING A NEW NAVAL POLICY, WITH THE OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM OF THE ENGLISH ADMIRALTY ON ENGLAND'S NAVAL POSITION

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