Germany
General German History
1. David Blackbourn, History of Germany, 1780-1918, Second Edition
2. James J. Sheehan, German History, 1770-1866
3. Mary Fulbrook, A Concise History of Germany
4. Gordon C. Craig, Germany, 1866-1945
5. Volker Berghahn, Modern Germany, 2nd edition
Sonderweg Historiography
7. Robert G. Moeller, “The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German
Historiography,” Journal of Social History, 17 (1984), 655-83.
8. Fritz Fischer, From Kaiserreich to Third Reich. Elements of Continuity in German History,
1871-1945
9. Jürgen Kocka, “German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg.”
JCH23 (1988), pp. 3-16
10. David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and
Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
11. Geoff Eley, From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past
Germany and Empire:
12. J. Breuilly, The Formation of the First German Nation State, 1800-1871
13. William J. Carr, The Origins of the Wars of German Unification
14. Hans Ulrich Wehler, German Empire
15. Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Imperial Germany 1867-1918. Politics, Culture, and Society in an
Authoritarian State
16. Roger Chickering, ed., Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion
17. Thomas Nipperdy, Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, 1800-1866
18. Volker Berghan, Imperial Germany, 1871-1918: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics
19. Katharine Anne Lerman, Bismarck (Profiles in Power)
--German Colonialism
20. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne M. Zantop, The Imperialist Imagination: German
Colonialism and Its Legacy (Perhaps come back to)
21. Ed. Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal, Germany’s Colonial Pasts
22. Andrew Zimmerman, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany
23. Pascal Grosse, Kolonialismus, Eugenik, und bürgerliche Gesellschaft in Deutschland, 18501918
24. Daniel Joseph Walther, Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identities in
Namibia
25. M.E. Townsend, The Rise and Fall of Germany’s Colonial Empire, 1884-1918
26. Woodruff Smith, “The Ideology of German Colonialism, 1840-1806”
27. Susanne Zantop, Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany,
1770-1870
--World War I
27. Fritz Fischer, Germany’s Aims in the First World War
28. Volker Berghahn, Germany and the Approach of War
The Weimar Republic
--Weimar Republic
29. Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
30. Eberhard Kolb, The Weimar Republic
31. Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
32. Hans Mommsen, The Rise and fall of Weimar Democracy
33. Gerald Feldman, The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation,
1919-1924
34. L.E. Jones, German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System 1918-1933
35. David Crew, Germans on Welfare. From Weimar to Hitler.
36. Detlev J. Peukert, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity
37. Anthony J. Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler
38. Harold James, “Economic Reasons for the Collapse of the Weimar Republic,” in Ian Kershaw,
ed., Weimar: Why did German Democracy Fail?
39. -----, The German Slump
40. Richard Bessel, “Why did the Weimar Republic Collapse?” in Ian Kershaw, ed., Weimar: Why
did German Democracy Fail?
The Third Reich
--General Historiography
40. Ian Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation
41. Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel E. Rogers, eds., The Impact of Nazism: New Perspectives on the
Third Reich and Its Legacy
42. Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power
--Politics and Economics in the Nazi State
43. Richard J. Overy, War and Economy in the Third Reich
44. Avraham Barkai, Nazi Economics. Ideology, Theory and Policy
45. Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
--Hitler: Strong or weak dictator?
51. Ian Kershaw, Hitler (Profiles in Power)
52. Eberhard Jäckel, Hitler’s Weltanschauung. A Blueprint for Power
--Eugenics and Race in Nazi Germany
53. Paul Weindling, Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism,
1870-1945
54. Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in
Germany
--Anti-Semitism
56. Michael Marrus, “The Theory and Practice of Antisemitism,” Commentary (1982) 74, pp. 38-42
57. Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945
58. Detlev Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life
--Hitler and the Holocaust
59. Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men. Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland
60. -----, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939March 1942
61. Michael Marrus, The Holocaust in History
62. Omer Bartov, The Holocaust. Origins, Implementation, Aftermath
--Nazi Foreign Policy
63. Milan Hauner, “Did Hitler want a World Dominion?” Journal of Contemporary History 13
(1978), pp. 15-32
64. Gerhard Weinberg, The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany. Diplomatic Revolution in Europe
1933-36
65. William Carr, Arms, Autarky, and Aggression. A Study in German Foreign Policy, 1933-1939
--The Nazis and Society
66. Richard Bessel, Life in the Third Reich
67. Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland. Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics
68. John Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches
69. Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
--Resistance
70. Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich. Bavaria, 1933-1945
71. David Clay Large, ed., Contending with Hitler. Varieties of German Resistance in the Third
Reich
72. Francis R. Nicosia and Lawrence D. Stokes, eds., Germans against Nazism
Post-1945 Germany
-- Problem of historicization of the Holocaust after 1945
73. Peter Baldwin, ed., Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Historians’ Debate
74. Jeffrey Herf, Divided Memory: the Nazi Past in the Two Germanies
75. Saul Friedlander, Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution”
--Shifting Perspectives of the Third Reich after Unification (1989)
76. Richard J. Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow. West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from
the Nazi Past
77. Saul Friedlaender, “West Germany and the Burden of the Past: the Ongoing Debate,” Jerusalem
Quarterly 42 (1987), pp. 3-18 (Article requested)
78. Jürgen Habermas, “A Kind of Indemnification: The Tendencies toward Apologia in German
Research on Current History,” Yad Vashem Studies 19 (1988), pp. 75-92. (Stacks)
79. Christian Meier, “To Condemn and to Understand: A Turning Point in German Historical
Remembrance,” Yad Vashem Studies 19 (1988), pp. 93-105 (Stacks)
80. Ernst Nolte, “Between Myth and Revisionism? The Third Reich in the Perspective of the
1980s,” in H.W. Koch, ed., Aspects of the Third Reich
81. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, “The Goldhagen Controversy: Agonising Problems, Scholarly Failure, and
the Political Dimension,” German History, 15 (1997), pp. 80-91. (Stacks)
--The Two Germanies
82. Mary Fulbrook, Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945-1990
83. -----, Divided Nation. A History of Germany 1918-1990
84. Henry A. Turner, Jr., Germany from Partition to Reunification
--East Germany
85. Mary Fulbrook, Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR
86. Corey Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of
the GDR
--West Germany
87. Dennis Bark and David Gress, A History of West Germany. Vol. 1: From Shadow to Substance
1945-1963.
88. Dennis Bark and David Gress, A History of West Germany, Vol. 2: Democracy and its
Discontents 1963-1991
--Race and gender after Hitler
88. Maria Höhn, GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
89. Heide Fehrenbach, Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and
America
90. Heide Fehrenbach, “Rehabilitating Fatherland: Race and German Remasculinization”
91. Hanna Schissler, The Miracle Years
92. Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided
Germany
93. Robert Moeller, Protecting Motherhood: Women and Family in the Politics of Postwar
Germany
94. Neil Gregor, German History from the Margins
95. Rita Chin, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany
96. Dagmar Herzog, Sex After Fascism
-- Reunification
97. John Breuilly, ed., The State of Germany: The National Idea in the Making, Unmaking, and
Remaking of a Nation-State
98. Konrad Jarausch, The Rush to German Unity
99. Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath, eds., Rewriting the German Past: History and Identity in the
New Germany
100. H. James and M. Stone, When the Wall Came Down: Reactions to German Unification