Annika Mombauer is Lecturer in European History, The Open University.
Wilhelm Deist is Honorary Professor in the History Department, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations;
Introduction Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist; Reflections on John Röhl: a
laudatio Jonathan Steinberg; 1. Wilhelm II and 'his' navy, 1888-1918
Michael Epkenhans; 2. Hollow-sounding jubilees: forms and effects of public
self-display in Wilhelmine Germany Bernd Sösemann; 3. The Kaiser's elite?
Wilhelm II and the Berlin administration 1890-1914 Katherine A. Lerman; 4.
Wilhelm, Waldersee and the Boxer rebellion Annika Mombauer; 5. Dreams of a
German Europe: Wilhelm II and the Treaty of Björkö of 1905 Roderick R.
McLean; 6. The uses of 'friendship'. The 'personal regime' of Wilhelm II
and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase; 7. Military
diplomacy in a military monarchy? Wilhelm II and his relations with British
service attachés in Berlin, 1903-1914 Matthew Seligmann; 8. Wilhelm II as
supreme warlord in the First World War Holger Afflerbach; 9. Germany's
'last card'. Wilhelm II and the decision in favour of unrestricted
submarine warfare in January 1917 Matthew Stibbe; 10. Military culture,
Wilhelm II, and the end of the monarchy in the First World War Isabel V.
Hull; 11. Rathenau, Wilhelm II, and the perception of Wilhelminismus
Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann; 12. Structure and agency in Wilhelmine
Germany: the history of the German Empire - past, present and future Volker
R. Berghahn; Index.
