The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887.

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The Failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and State Power in Imperial Germany, 1871-1887. By Ronald J. Ross. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1998. xvi + 219 pp. $66.95.

In the early 1870s, as part of his determination to consolidate the total unity of the new German Empire, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck launched a large-scale campaign against the Roman Catholic Church. The name Kulturkampf signifies his conviction that the Roman Church was an entity so alien to authentic German culture that it could not really be integrated into ...

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