The Kaiser and His TimesWhat were the consequences for Germany, and the world, that William II was Kaiser at the onset of the 'Great War'? In The Kaiser and His Times (first published in 1964), Michael Balfour analyzes the social, constitutional, and economic forces at work in imperial Germany, and sets the complex and disputed character of the Kaiser, who occupied such a central position in the three decades before 1918, in the context of his family background and the history of Germany. |
Contents
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TRADE AND COLONIES | 29 |
THE FAMILY BACKGROUND | 14 |
EARLY LIFE | |
ACCESSION TO POWER | |
THE NEW MASTER | |
THE NEW COURSE | |
THE CLIMACTERIC | |
A WHIRLWIND TO BE REAPED | |
OUT TO GRASS | |
THE FRONTIERS OF MORALITY | |
Afterword | |
A Statistical Comparison between the Economies | |
Strength of Parties in the Reichstag | |