The Kaiser and His Times
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The Kaiser and His Times

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The Kaiser and His Times

About this book

What 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.

'[Balfour] has borne in mind the Kaiser's own request to the head of his military Secretariat - 'Not dry reports only, please, but now and then a funny story.' The circumstances that allowed to Kaiser to live as if 'The greater part of his life... was illusion' would make comic reading if the results had not been so tragic...' Kirkus Review

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571303779
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
German History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Notes on Sources
  8. Preface
  9. CHAPTER I: The Historical Background: 400 b.c.–a.d. 1880
  10. CHAPTER II: The Background to Anglo-German Relations: Trade and Colonies
  11. CHAPTER III: The Family Background
  12. CHAPTER IV: Early Life
  13. CHAPTER V: Accession to Power
  14. CHAPTER VI: The New Master
  15. CHAPTER VII: The New Course
  16. CHAPTER VIII: The Climacteric
  17. CHAPTER IX: Nightmare becomes Reality
  18. CHAPTER X: The Shadows Deepen
  19. CHAPTER XI: A Whirlwind to be Reaped
  20. CHAPTER XII: Out to Grass
  21. CHAPTER XIII: The Frontiers of Morality
  22. Afterword
  23. Family Tree of the Kaiser
  24. Appendix I: A Statistical Comparison between the Economies of the United Kingdom and Germany, 1870–1914
  25. Appendix II: Strength of Parties in the Reichstag
  26. Appendix III: Biographical Index of Persons Mentioned
  27. Subject Index
  28. Plates
  29. About the Author
  30. Copyright