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Germany and Austria 1814-2000, London: Arnold 2002 HL-256-897 Ardagh, John, Germany and the Germans 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 enter/click on the shelf number of a relevant book (such as 943.08): this will give you lists of other related books. • Further reading will be suggested from time to time in the individual lectures. • Where no shelf number indicated, there are at least two locations: check catalogue. Germany: Allinson, Mark: Germany and Austria 1814-2000, London: Arnold 2002 HL-256-897 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 OUP = Oxford University Press; CUP = Cambridge UP; MUP = Manchester UP (etc.) NY=New York 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 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 Wirsching, Andreas: Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, Munich: Beck 2001 943.08 P1 Switzerland: Church, Clive H.: A concise history of Switzerland. CUP 2013. Halbrook, Stephen E.: The Swiss and the Nazis. How the Alpine Republic survived in the shadow of the Third Reich. Casemate 2010. OUP = Oxford University Press; CUP = Cambridge UP; MUP = Manchester UP (etc.) NY=New York Kriesi, Hanspeter: The politics of Switzerland. Continuity and change in a consensus democracy. CUP 2008. Linder, Wolf: Swiss democracy. Possible solutions to conflict in multicultural societies. Basignstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010. 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. (à 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. 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 .
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