The Kaiser and His Times

by Michael Balfour

Overview

“[An] admirably comprehensive and beautifully written study of William II’s reign.” —Gordon A . Craig

What did it mean for Germany, and the world, to have William II on the throne for the First World War? In The Kaiser and His Times, Michael Balfour analyzes the social, constitutional, and economic forces at work in imperial Germany, and sets the complex and disputed character of the Kaiser, who occupied such a central position in the three decades before 1918, in the context of his family background and the history of Germany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393006612
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/17/1972
Series:	Norton Library Series , #661
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Balfour (1908-1995) was a writer, historian and public servant. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, he held various senior civil servant posts before becoming Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia. He wrote nine books on modern history, three of which are being reissued in Faber Finds, The Kaiser and His Times, Propaganda in War, 1939-1945 and Britain and Joseph Chamberlain.