Final List – Major Field in Modern Germany – Jessica Butler
General Histories
Berghahn, Volker. Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century,
Second Edition (1987).
Blackbourn, David. History of Germany, 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century, Second
Edition (2002).
Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and
Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984).
Craig, Gordon. Germany, 1866-1945 (1978).
Epstein, Klaus. The Genesis of German Conservatism (1975).
James, Harold. A German Identity:1770-1990 (1989).
Sheehan, James J. German History, 1770-1866 (1989).
Pre-Unification
Hull, Isabel. Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 (1996
Nipperdey, Thomas. Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, 1800-1866 (1996).
Imperial Germany
Anderson, Margaret. Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial
Germany (2000).
Chickering, Roger, ed. Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion (1996).
Eley, Geoff. Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after
Bismarck (1991).
Eley, Geoff. Society, Culture and State in Germany, 1870-1930 (1998).
Hull, Isabel. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial
Germany (2006).
Hull, Isabel V. The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II 1888-1918 (2004).
Kitchen, Martin. The German Officer Corps, 1890-1914 (1968).
Mommsen, Wolfgang. Imperial Germany 1867-1918. Politics, Culture, and Society in an
Authoritarian State (1995).
Smith, Helmut Walser. German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics,
1870-1914 (1995).
WWI
Berghahn, Volker. Germany and the Approach of War in 1914 (1973).
Chickering, Roger. Imperial Germany and the Great War (1998).
Chickering, Roger. The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 (2009).
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989).
Fischer, Fritz. Germany’s Aim in the First World War (1967).
Kocka, Jürgen. Facing Total War: German Society 1914-1918 (1985).
Davis, Belinda. Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I
Berlin (2000).
Leed, Eric J. No Man’s Land: Combat & Identity in World War I (1981).
Verhey, Jeffrey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany (2000).
Welch, David. Germany, Propaganda and Total War 1914-1918 (2000).
Wehler, Hans Ulrich. German Empire
Interwar/Weimar
Bessel, Richard. "The Great War in German Memory: The Soldiers of the First World War,
Demobilization and Weimar Political Culture," German History 6, No. 1 (1988): 20-34.
Bessel, Richard. Germany after the First World War (1993)
Fritzsche, Peter. Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar
Germany (1990).
Gay, Peter. Weimar Culture: The Outside as Insider (2001).
Peukert, Detlev. The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity (1992).
Sexuality and Gender
Bleuel, Hans Peter. Sex and Society in Nazi Germany (1996).
Bridenthal, Renate, ed. When Biology Became Destiny (1984).
Crouthamel, Jason. “Male Sexuality and Psychological Trauma: Soldiers and Sexual Disorder in
World War I and Weimar Germany.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 17, no. 1 (January
2008): 60-84.
Dose, Ralf. Magnus Hirschfeld: Deutscher, Jude, Weltbürger (2005).
Fout, John C. “Sexual Politics in Wilhelmine Germany: The Male Gender Crisis, Moral Purity
and Homophobia.” In Forbidden History: The State, Society, and the Regulation of Sexuality in
Modern Europe, edited by John C. Fout, 259-92. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1992.
Giles, Geoffrey J. “The Institution of Homosexual Panic in the Third Reich.” In Social Outsiders
in Nazi Germany, edited by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stolzfus, 233-255. New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 2001.
Giles, Geoffrey J. “'The Most Unkindest Cut of All': Castration, Homosexuality and
Nazi Justice.” Journal of Contemporary History27, no. 1 (January 2000): 41-61.
Hagemann & Schüler-Springorum, eds., Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in
Twentieth-Century Germany (2002).
Heineman, Elizabeth D. What Difference Does a Husband Make: Women and Marital Status in
Nazi and Postwar Germany (1999).
Herzog, Dagmar. Die Politisierung der Lust: Sexualität in der deutschen Geschichte des 20.
Jahrhunderts (2005).
Herzog, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century
Germany (2007).
Higonnet, Margaret, eds. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (1989).
Jerome, Roy, ed. Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity (2001).
Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherland. Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (1986).
Lücke, Martin. Männlichkeit in Unordnung: Homosexualität und männliche Prostitution in
Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik (2008).
Mancini, Elena. Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First
International Sexual Freedom Movement (2010).
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (1996).
Mosse, George L. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern
Europe (1985).
Ross, Chad. Naked Germany (2005)
Steakley, James D. The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany (1975).
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies, vol I.: Women, Floods, Bodies, History (1987).
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies, vol II.: Male Bodies - Psychoanalyzing the White
Terror (1989).
Zur Nieden, Susanne, ed. Homosexualität und Staatsräson: Männlichkeit, Homophobie und
Politik in Deutschland 1900-1945 (2005).
Science and Medicine
Gasman, Daniel. The Scientific Origins of National Socialism (2004).
Harwood, Jonathan. Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 19001933 (1993).
Lerner, Paul. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 18901930 (2003).
Weikart, Richard. From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism
in Germany (2004).
Weindling, Paul. Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism,
1870-1945(1993).
Anti-Semitism, National Socialism & WWII
Bartov, Omer. The Holocaust. Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (2011).
Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland(1993).
Burleigh, Michael and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (1993).
Friedländer, Saul. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 (vol.
2) (2008).
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power (2006).
Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (2000).
Koonz, Claudia. The Nazi Conscience (2005).
Mosse, George. The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (1964).
Mosse, George. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism (1997).Peukert,
Peukert, Detlev. Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday
Life (1989).
Postwar and Memory
Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945: From War to Peace (2009).
Fullbrook, Mary. Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989 (1998).
Herf, Jeffrey. Divided Memory: the Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (1999).
Jarausch, Konrad H. After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 (2008).