Imperial Germany, 1890-1918

Part 1 The background: the historiography of Wilhelmine Germany the house that Bismarck built. Part 2 Narration and analysis: domestic politics 1890-1914 - the road to personal rule 1890-1897, the ascendancy of Bulow 1897-1909, governing from issue to issue 1909-1914 social and economic developments - Germany as an industrial power, a divided society?, the treatment of minorities the armed forces - the army, Tirpitz and the navy foreign and colonial policy 1890-1914 - the quest for world power status, the failure of German diplomacy 1890-1914, the miscalculated risk of 1914 the test of war 1914-1918 - domestic politics and the supremacy of the General Staff, war aims, defeat and revolution. Part 3 Assessment. Part 4 Documents.