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Germany General German History 1. David Blackbourn, History Of 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, 1850- 1918 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 1939- March 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 .
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