Kaiser Wilhelm II New Interpretations: The Corfu PapersJohn C. G. Röhl, Nicolaus Sombart Cambridge University Press, 15/09/2005 - 336 من الصفحات Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) is one of the most fascinating figures in European history. Inheriting the 'mightiest throne on earth' in 1888, he played a central part in fashioning the policies which culminated in the catastrophe of 1914-18, the collapse of the Reich, and his own abdication. To an extraordinary extent he was also representative of his epoch: brilliant, bizarre, aggressive, insecure. Yet German historians have virtually ignored him. They have written the history of the Kaiserreich without the Kaiser, of Wilhelminism without Wilhelm, leaving the field to the amateurs. Recently, the conviction has been growing, in Germany as well as in American and Great Britain, that the huge advances achieved in the social and economic history of Imperial Germany must now be complemented by deeper research into the Kaiser's character, his role in decision-making, and his relationship to the social and cultural values of his era. In September 1979, a dozen historians met in the Kaiser's palace on Corfu to discuss these questions: this book contains their findings. |
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a character sketch of Kaiser | 23 |
an inquiry into | 63 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II and | 91 |
the state visit to Windsor | 121 |
reflexions on Wilhelm | 143 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II in the context of his military and naval | 169 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Liebenberg Circle | 193 |
the Kaiser | 249 |
German attitudes to Kaiser Wilhelm II | 269 |
some reflexions on Wilhelmine | 287 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Admiral ambassador Anglo-German Army August BA Koblenz behaviour Berlin Bernhard von Bülow Bismarck British Bülow Papers Bundesrat constitutional Court crisis Crown Prince Crown Princess Denkwürdigkeiten Deutsche deutschen Deutschland diary diplomatic Edward VII Emperor England English entourage Eulenburg Papers Eulenburg to Bülow Eulenburgs Korrespondenz father February Foreign Office foreign policy Friedrich Friedrich von Holstein friends German Germany's Görtz Grey Hammann Hans-Ulrich Wehler Hardinge Herbert von Bismarck HHSA Wien Hinzpeter historians Hohenlohe Hohenzollern homosexuality HSA Stuttgart Ibid Imperial influence January John C. G. Röhl Kaiser Wilhelm Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaiserdom Kaiserreich King Kommandogewalt Lascelles Liebenberg Circle London Maximilian Harden Merseburg military Minister Moltke monarch mother Munich naval Navy November personal rule Philipp Eulenburg political Politik politische position Prussian Prussian Ministry Queen Victoria Reich Chancellor Reichstag relationship Richthofen Röhl role September social society Tirpitz Varnbüler Waldersee Wehler Wilhelm II's Wilhelmine Germany wrote ZSA Merseburg