附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wilhelm II and 'his' navy, 1888-1918 / Michael Epkenhans -- Hollow-sounding jubilees: forms and effects of public self-display in Wilhelmine Germany / Bernd Sösemann -- The Kaiser's elite? Wilhelm II and the Berlin administration, 1890-1914 / Katharine A. Lerman -- Wilhelm, Waldersee, and the Boxer Rebellion / Annika Mombauer -- Dreams of a German Europe: Wilhelm II and the Treaty of Björkö of 1905 / Roderick R. McLean -- The uses of 'friendship'. The 'personal regime' of Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 / Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase -- Military diplomacy in a military monarchy? Wilhelm II's relations with the British service attachš in Berlin, 1903-1914 / Matthew S. Seligmann -- Wilhelm II as supreme warlord in the First World War / Holger Afflerbach -- Germany's 'last card'. Wilhelm II and the decision in favour of unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917 / Matthew Stibbe -- Military culture, Wilhelm II, and the end of the monarchy in the First World War / Isabel V. Hull -- Rathenau, Wilhelm II, and the perception of Wilhelminismus / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann -- Structure and agency in Wilhelmine Germany: the history of the German Empire: past, present, and future / Volker R. Berghahn.
摘要:This book examines the role of Germany's last emperor, Wilhelm II, focusing on the final years of his reign (1900-1918). The essays highlight Wilhelm's importance from a number of different foreign and domestic angles, and are based on the very latest research on Wilhelmine Germany.