Many view Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its leap to global power, but The Kaiser and the Colonies shows that he played a surprisingly muted role in the German Empire in contrast to the lively, varied, innovative responses to German imperialism from monarchs around the world.
Many view Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its leap to global power, but The Kaiser and the Colonies shows that he played a surprisingly muted role in the German Empire in contrast to the lively, varied, innovative responses to German imperialism from monarchs around the world.
Matthew P Fitzpatrick is a professor of international history at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is the author of Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914, and Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1884. Winner of the Chester Penn Higby Prize, he has also been a Humboldt Fellow at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Royal Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire Part I: Monarchy in the Metropole 1: A Siamese Charm Offensive 2: In Search of a German Hong Kong 3: A Pilgrim to the Holy Land 4: Kowtowing before the Kaiser 5: The 'Kaiser's Holocaust' in Africa? 6: Defending a Sovereign Sultan Part II: Monarchy beyond the Metropole 7: Company Rule and the Sultan of Zanzibar 8: Swapping a Sultanate for an Island 9: Paramountcy in German Southwest Africa 10: The Limits of Royal Reciprocity 11: The Kaiser's Birthday Present 12: A Visit to the King of Samoa 13: Hanging a King Conclusion
Introduction: Royal Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire Part I: Monarchy in the Metropole 1: A Siamese Charm Offensive 2: In Search of a German Hong Kong 3: A Pilgrim to the Holy Land 4: Kowtowing before the Kaiser 5: The 'Kaiser's Holocaust' in Africa? 6: Defending a Sovereign Sultan Part II: Monarchy beyond the Metropole 7: Company Rule and the Sultan of Zanzibar 8: Swapping a Sultanate for an Island 9: Paramountcy in German Southwest Africa 10: The Limits of Royal Reciprocity 11: The Kaiser's Birthday Present 12: A Visit to the King of Samoa 13: Hanging a King Conclusion
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