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Not infrequently in recent times have the states, or some of them, raised protest against this centralizing tendency, and especially against the "Prussianization" of the Empire which it seems clearly to involve.
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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“Critics,” the article says, “said that universal health care was ‘made in Germany’ and likely to result in the ‘Prussianization of America’.”
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“Critics,” the article says, “said that universal health care was ‘made in Germany’ and likely to result in the ‘Prussianization of America’.”
The Sunday Salon: How German is It? « Exile on Ninth Street 2010
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“Critics,” the article says, “said that universal health care was ‘made in Germany’ and likely to result in the ‘Prussianization of America’.”
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A strain of pro-Germanism pervades his work; compare, for example, the admiration of German military efficiency and orderliness in August 1914 with, say, Tolstoy's savage derision of the Prussianization of the Russian general staff in War and Peace.
Before and After Solzhenitsyn Stern, David N. 1976
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Is there a difference between Americanization and Prussianization?
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Duchy of Baden -- are divided by these two opinions: an unsuccessful war would compromise the Federation from which they have derived great economic advantages; a successful war would profit only Prussia and Prussianization, against which they have difficulty in defending their political independence and administrative autonomy.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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The period of mechanical Prussianization is over for us, the period of the mechanical policy of Force is over for all the world, although the heliographs of Versailles seem to reflect it high above the horizon.
The New Society Walther Rathenau 1894
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The Danes, on the other hand, in the northern part of these provinces, still resist Prussianization.
Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886
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The Italians, who have in large measure a sense of humor, that clarifying quality which Prussianization has destroyed in the Germans, must have smiled when they heard the German envoys expatiate on the beauties of neutrality, and, although they are a polite people, they must have found it hard to keep from laughing when the agents of Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg, who had just declared that a treaty is only a scrap of paper, to be torn up at pleasure, tried to impress upon Italy the sacredness of the treaty which bound her to the Triple Alliance.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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