Department of Germanic Studies
JF Area Studies (Landeskunde) Bibliography
 This is just an introductory selection, largely books in English on open shelves.
 Use keyword searches [e.g. Germany (East), Germany unification, etc.], or click on the shelf number
of a relevant book: this will give you lists of other related books.
 Further reading will be suggested in the individual lectures.
 Where no shelf number indicated, there are at least two locations: check catalogue.
Ardagh, John, Germany and the Germans. London: Penguin 1991 943.0878
Ash, T.G.: In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, London: Cape 1993 943.087 N35
Bade, Klaus J. (ed.), Population, Labour and Migration in 19th- and 20th-Century Germany,
Leamington: Berg 1987 LEN 943.07 M7;1
Bark, D. L., Cress, D. R., A History of West Germany. Oxford: Blackwell 1993. 943.087
Burns, Rob (ed.), German Cultural Studies: An Introduction. OUP 1995 LEN 309.143 N5
Buse, Dieter & Jürgen Dörr (eds.): Modern Germany: an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture,
1871-1990, NY & London: Garland 1998 REF 943.08 N81
Carr, William: A History of Germany 1815-1990, London: Arnold 1991
Dale, Gareth: The East German Revolution of 1989, MUP 2006 320.943 P61
Dennis, M.: The rise and fall of the German Democratic Republic, Harlow: Longman 2000 943.1 P01
Fulbrook, Mary, A Concise history of Germany. CUP 2004. 943 N93
Fulbrook, Mary, German National Identity after the Holocaust. Cambridge: Polity 1999 943.086 N96
Fulbrook, Mary, The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-90. OUP 1992 ARTS 320.943 N22
Fulbrook, Mary: Anatomy of a Doctatorship. Inside the GDR 1949-1989. OUP 1995. 943.1 N5
Fulbrook, Mary (ed.): Twentieth-century Germany: politics, culture and society 1918-1990, London:
Arnold 2001 943.087 P12
Giersch, Helmut: The Fading Miracle: Four Generations of Market Economy in Germany, CUP 1992
ARTS 338.943 N2
Green, Simon et al.: The Politics of the New Germany, London: Routledge 2008 HL-311-790
Horrocks, D., Kolinsky, E. (eds), Turkish Culture in German Society Today. Providence/Oxford:
Berghahn 1996. LEN 301.451 N65
Humphreys, P.J.: Media and Media Policy in Germany: The Press and Broadcasting since 1945.
Oxford/Providence: Berg 1994 ARTS 301.16 N03
Jarausch, Konrad H.: Dictatorship as experience: towards a socio-cultural history of the GDR, NY &
Oxford: Berghahn 1999 943.1 N9
Jarausch, K.H./ Gransow,V.: Uniting Germany: documents and debates, OUP 1994. 943.087 N42
Jones, Alun, The New Germany: A Human Geography. Chichester: Wiley 1994. 943.087
Kitson, Alison: Germany, 1858-1990: hope, terror, and revival, OUP 2001 PL-354-705
Laqueur, Walter, Europe in our time. A history 1945-1992. London: Penguin 1992. LEN 320.94 N25;1
Lewis, D., McKenzie, J.: The New Germany: Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification.
University of Exeter Press 1995 ARTS 320.943 N53
Ó Dochartaigh, Pól: Germany since 1945, London: Palgrave 2004 943.087 P4
Osmond, Jonathan.: German reunification: a reference guide and commentary, Harlow: Longman
1992 REF 943.087
OUP = Oxford University Press; CUP = Cambridge UP; MUP = Manchester UP (etc.) NY=New York
Parkes, S., Understanding Contemporary Germany. London: Routledge 1997 [catalogued under
K.Stuart Parkes] ARTS 320.943 N7
Raff, D.: A history of Germany from the Medieval Empire to the present. Oxford: Berg 1988. 943 M81
Sandford, J.: Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. London: Routledge 1999 REF 943 N9
Schissler, Hanna (ed.): The miracle years: a cultural history of West Germany, 1949-1968, Princeton
& Oxford: Princeton UP 2001 HL-245-764
Spicka, Mark E.: Selling the economic miracle: economic reconstruction and politics in West Germany,
1949-1957, NY and Oxford: Berghahn 2007 HL-305-428
Steininger, Rolf, Deutsche Geschichte 1945-1961. Darstellungen und Dokumente in 2 Bdn.,
Frankfurt/Main: Fischer 1983. LEN 943.087 M3.1 /2
Stevenson, Patrick: Language and German disunity: a sociolinguistic history of East and West
Germany, 1945-2000, OUP 2002 HL-260-328 or PL-385-744
Sweeney, Jim & J. Weidenholzer: Austria. A study in modern achievement. Aldershot: Avebury 1988
HL-105-953
Unwin, D. W., A political history of West Germany. 5th. ed., London: Longman, 1997 LEN 320.94
M93*4;1.
Verheyen, Dirk: The German question: a cultural, historical, and geopolitical exploration, Boulder &
Oxford: Westview 1999 943.087 N98
Winkler, Heinrich August: Germany: The Long Road West, OUP 2007 (2 vols) 943.084 P6
Austria:
Kohl, Katrin/ Robertson, Richie „Austrian history from 1918 to 2000“. in: ibid. (eds.). A History of
Austrian Literature 1918-2000. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006. p. 2-10. (very brief
introductory summary)
Lichtenberger, Elisabeth. Austria. Society and Regions. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,
2000.
Luther, Kurt Richard/ Pulzer, Peter (eds.). Austria 1945-95: fifty years of the Second Republic. Hants,
England: Ashgate Publishing, 1998.
Nick, Rainer/ Pelinka, Anton. Politische Landeskunde der Republik Österreich. Berlin: Colloquium,
1989. ( not up to date but good basics)
Sully, Melanie, A contemporary history of Austria. London: Routledge, 1990 HL-124- 89
Sweeney, Jim & J. Weidenholzer: Austria. A study in modern achievement. Aldershot: Avebury, 1988
HL-105-953
Turk, Eleanor L.: Issues in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Oxford: Harcourt 2003.
Utgaard, Peter. Remembering and forgetting Nazism: education, national identity, and the victim myth
in postwar Austria. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Habsburger:
Bérenger, J.: A History of the Habsburg Empire. 1700-1918. London, NY: Longman 1997.
Fichter, Paula S. The Habsburg Monarchy, 1490-1848. NY, Houndsmills: Palgrave 2003.
Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Habsburgs. Embodying empire. London: Folio Society, 2004.
OUP = Oxford University Press; CUP = Cambridge UP; MUP = Manchester UP (etc.) NY=New York