Imperial Germany 1890 - 1918 (Seminar Studies)

✍ Scribed by Ian Porter, Ian D. Armour

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater understanding of this period is also vital to explain the rise of the Third Reich. The authors focus on Germany's role as a major military and imperial power, industrialiastion and the economy, the crucial effects of the war years and the disturbing evidence that Germany's response to Hitler is to be found in the Wilhelmine era.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
LIST OF MAPS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
Part One: Background
1 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WILHELMINE GERMANY
2 THE HOUSE THAT BISMARCK BUILT
Part Two: Narration and Analysis
3 DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1890–1914
The road to 'personal rule', 1890–97
The ascendancy of Bülow, 1897–1909
Governing 'from issue to issue', 1909–14
4 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS
Germany as an industrial power
A divided society?
The treatment of minorities
5 THE ARMED FORCES
The army
Tirpitz and the navy
6 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POLICY, 1890–1914
The quest for world power status
The failure of German diplomacy, 1890–1914
The miscalculated risk of 1914
7 THE TEST OF WAR, 1914–18
Domestic politics and the supremacy of the General Staff
War aims
Defeat and revolution
Part Three: Assessment
Part Four: Documents
CHRONOLOGY
GLOSSARY
REICHSTAG ELECTION RESULTS, 1890–1918
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX