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• LIST OF MAPS IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES V Part One: Background 1 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WILHELMINE GERMANY 2 THE HOUSE THAT BISMARCK BUILT 5 Part Two: Narration and Analysis 9 3 DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1890-1914 9 The road to 'personal rule', 1890-97 9 The ascendancy of Biilow, 1897-1909 12 Governing 'from issue to issue', 1909-14 17 4 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS 21 Germany as an industrial power 21 A divided society? 23 The treatment of minorities 28 5 THE ARMED FORCES 33 The army 33 Tirpitz and the navy 36 6 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POLICY, 1890-1914 40 The quest for world power status 40 The failure of German diplomacy, 1890-1914 45 The miscalculated risk of 1914 48 7 THE TEST OF WAR, 1914-18 53 Domestic politics and the supremacy of the General Staff 53 War aims 59 Defeat and revolution 63 Part Three: Assessment Part Four: Documents CHRONOLOGY GLOSSARY REICHSTAG ELECTION RESULTS, 1890-1918 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX List of Maps The German Empire, 1871-1918 German colonies by 1914 Eastern Europe after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Acknowledgemen

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• LIST OF MAPS IV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES V Part One: Background 1 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WILHELMINE GERMANY 2 THE HOUSE THAT BISMARCK BUILT 5 Part Two: Narration and Analysis 9 3 DOMESTIC POLITICS, 1890-1914 9 The road to 'personal rule', 1890-97 9 The ascendancy of Biilow, 1897-1909 12 Governing 'from issue to issue', 1909-14 17 4 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS 21 Germany as an industrial power 21 A divided society? 23 The treatment of minorities 28 5 THE ARMED FORCES 33 The army 33 Tirpitz and the navy 36 6 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL POLICY, 1890-1914 40 The quest for world power status 40 The failure of German diplomacy, 1890-1914 45 The miscalculated risk of 1914 48 7 THE TEST OF WAR, 1914-18 53 Domestic politics and the supremacy of the General Staff 53 War aims 59 Defeat and revolution 63 Part Three: Assessment Part Four: Documents CHRONOLOGY GLOSSARY REICHSTAG ELECTION RESULTS, 1890-1918 BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX List of Maps The German Empire, 1871-1918 German colonies by 1914 Eastern Europe after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Acknowledgemen