Format:
1 online resource (317 pages)
ISBN:
9780511204937
Content:
This 2003 text examines the role of Kaiser Wilhelm II, focusing on the final years of his reign.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Reflections on John Röhl: a Laudatio -- CHAPTER 1 Wilhelm II and 'his' navy, 1888-1918 -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- CHAPTER 2 Hollow-sounding jubilees: forms and effects of public self-display in Wilhelmine Germany -- CHAPTER 3 The Kaiser's elite? Wilhelm II and the Berlin administration, 1890-1914 -- CHAPTER 4 Wilhelm, Waldersee, and the Boxer Rebellion -- GERMAN AND INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS TO THE BOXER REBELLION -- THE QUESTION OF A UNIFIED COMMAND -- WALDERSEE AS WELTMARSCHALL -- THE REALITY OF WALDERSEE'S MISSION -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 Dreams of a German Europe: Wilhelm II and the Treaty of Björkö of 1905 -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- CHAPTER 6 The uses of 'friendship'. The 'personal regime' of Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 -- I -- II -- III -- CHAPTER 7 Military diplomacy in a military monarchy? Wilhelm II's relations with the British service attachés in Berlin… -- CHAPTER 8 Wilhelm II as supreme warlord in the First World War -- WILHELM II: A SHADOW KAISER? -- THE KAISER: AN UNWARLIKE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF? -- WILHELM II AND OPERATIONAL PLANNING -- THE KAISER AS CO-ORDINATOR OF GERMAN STRATEGY -- THE KAISER'S PERSONNEL POLICY -- EXILE OR SACRIFICIAL DEATH? -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 9 Germany's 'last card'. Wilhelm II and the decision in favour of unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917 -- THE STRATEGIC DILEMMA -- THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC OPINION -- THE SUBMARINE CRISIS INTENSIFIES -- CONCLUSION -- CHPATER 10 Military culture, Wilhelm II, and the end of the monarchy in the First World War -- MILITARY CULTURE -- UNDERMINING THE MONARCHY -- INSTRUMENTALIZING THE KAISER -- CHAPTER 11 Rathenau, Wilhelm II, and the perception of Wilhelminismus.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521824088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521824088
Additional Edition:
Print version The Kaiser : New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=218231
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