Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941
Subtitle: a concise life
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781107420779
Table of contents: title: Part I : 1859-1888 : The tormented Prussian prince.; title: The "soul murder" of an heir to the throne; title: Ambivalent motherhood; title: A daring educational experiment; title: The conflict between the prince of Prussia and his parents; title: 1888: the year of the three kaisers; title: Part II : 1888-1909 : The anachronistic autocrat.; title: Divine right without end; title: Bismarck's fall from power, 1889-1890; title: The establishment of the kaiser's personal monarchy, 1890-1897; title: The chancellor as courtier: the corrupt Bulow system (1897-1909); title: Part III : 1896-1908 : The egregious expansionist.; title: The challenge to Europe: weltmachtpolitik and the battlefleet; title: The Russo-Japanese War and the meeting of the emperors on Bjorko (1904-1905); title: War in the west? The landing in Tangier and the fiasco of Algeciras (1905-1906); title: The intensification of the Anglo-German conflict; title: Part IV : 1906-1909 : The scandal-ridden sovereign.; title: The Eulenburg Affair (1906-1909); title: Bulow's betrayal of the kaiser: the Daily Telegraph crisis (1908-1909); title: From Bulow to Bethmann Hollweg: the chancellor merry-go-round of 1909; title: Part V : 1908-1914 : The bellicose supreme war lord.; title: The Bosnian annexation crisis (1908-1909); title: The "leap of the panther" to Agadir (1911); title: The battlefleet and the growing risk of war with Britain (1911-1912); title: Doomed to failure: the Haldane mission (1912); title: Turmoil in the Balkans and a first decision for war (November 1912); title: War postponed: the "war council" of 8 December 1912; title: The postponed war draws nearer (1913-1914); title: The kaiser in the July crisis of 1914; title: Part VI : 1914-1918 : The champion of God's germanic cause.; title: The kaiser's war aims; title: The impotence of the supreme war lord at war; title: Downfall: the collapse of the Hohenzollern Monarchy; title: Part VII : 1918-1941 : The vengeful exile.; title: A new life in Amerongen and Doorn; title: The rabid anti-semite in exile; title: The kaiser and Hitler