Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich KU Leuven
Wilhelm II, the last German emperor, was arguably one of the most if not the most prominent of the European monarchs around 1900. In many ways he came to define what a media monarch had to look like as he skillfully - though hardly consciously - defined modern and anachronistic features to a new form of monarchic personae. The relatively strong political position the monarchy in Germany still enjoyed, contributed to this ambivalent success ...