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Online publication date:
June 2014
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511984631

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This book provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of German history from the early middle ages to the present day. The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands has provided a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. Mary Fulbrook provides a crisp synthesis of a vast array of historical material, and explores the interrelationships between social, political and cultural factors in the light of scholarly controversies. First published in 1990, A Concise History of Germany appeared in an updated edition in 1992, and in a second edition in 2004. It is the only single-volume history of Germany in English which offers a broad, general coverage. It has become standard reading for all students of German, European studies and history, and is a useful guide to general readers, members of the business community and travellers to Germany.

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Contents

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Mediaeval Germany
B. Arnold, German Knighthood 1050–1300 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
* B. Arnold, Medieval Germany 500–1300. A Political Interpretation (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
B. Arnold, Princes and Territories in Medieval Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
* F. R. H. Du Boulay, Germany in the Later Middle Ages (London: Athlone Press, 1983)
J. Fleckenstein, Early Mediaeval Germany (Oxford: North-Holland, 1978)
H. Fuhrmann, Germany in the High Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
J. Gillingham, The Kingdom of Germany in the High Middle Ages (London: The Historical Association, 1971)
* A. Haverkamp, Medieval Germany, 1056–1273 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 1992)
J. Leuschner, Germany in the Later Middle Ages (Oxford: North-Holland, 1979)
K. Leyser, Mediaeval Germany and its Neighbours, 900–1250 (London: Hambledon Press, 1982)
Early Modern Germany, C. 1500–1800
* R. Asch, The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618–1648 (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997)
G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany 1500–1800 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974)
O. Büsch, Military System and Social Life in Old Regime Prussia, 1713–1807: The Beginnings of the Social Militarisation of Prusso-German Society (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1997)
E. Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
C. Clark, The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728–1941 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
G. Darby, The Thirty Years War (London: Hodder and Staughton, 2001)
A. G. Dickens, The German Nation and Martin Luther (Glasgow: Collins (Fontana), 1976)
* C. Scott Dixon, The Reformation in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)
C. Scott Dixon (ed.), The German Reformation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
* P. Dwyer (ed.), The Rise of Prussia, 1700–1830 (Harlow: Pearson, 2000)
K. Friedrich, The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
M. Fulbrook, Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
* J. Gagliardo, Germany under the Old Regime, 1600–1790 (London: Longman, 1991)
R. Gawthrop, Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
* M. Hughes, Early Modern Germany, 1477–1806 (London: Macmillan, 1992)
* C. Ingrao, The Habsburg Monarchy 1618–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 2000)
C. Ingrao, The Hessian Mercenary State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
M. Lindemann, Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712–1830 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)
J. Van Horn Melton, Absolutism and the Eighteenth-century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
G. Mortimer, Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618–48 (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002)
G. Parker (ed.), The Thirty Years War (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984)
R. Porter and M. Teich (eds.), The Enlightenment in National Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
M. Raeff, The Well-ordered Police State (London: Yale University Press, 1983)
L. Roper, The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
* H. M. Scott (ed.), Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1990)
H. M. Scott (ed.), The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2 vols. (London: Longman, 1995)
R. W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk. Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
* R. W. Scribner, The German Reformation (London: Macmillan, 1986)
R. W. Scribner (ed. by L. Roper), Religion and Culture in Germany (1400–1800) (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2001)
M. Shennan, The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia (London: Routledge, 1995)
Q. Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: the Age of Reformation, vol. II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
J. A. Vann, The Making of a State: Württemberg 1593–1793 (London: Cornell University Press, 1984)
R. Vierhaus, Germany in the Age of Absolutism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
J. Whaley, Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529–1819 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
P. H. Wilson, Absolutism in Central Europe (London: Routledge, 2000)
P. H. Wilson, German Armies. War and German Politics, 1648–1806 (London: UCL Press, 1998)
P. H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999)
P. H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Germany C. 1789–1918
L. Abrams, Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 (London: Routledge, 1995)
L. Abrams, Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany (London: Routledge, 1992)
L. Abrams and E. Harvey (eds.), Gender Relations in German History (London: UCL Press, 1996)
C. Applegate, A Nation of Provincials: the German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1990)
R. M. Berdahl, The Politics of the Prussian Nobility: the Development of a Conservative Ideology, 1770–1848 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988)
* D. Blackbourn, History of Germany 1780–1918: the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 2nd edn, 2003)
D. Blackbourn and G. Eley, The Peculiarities of German History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)
T. C. W. Blanning, The French Revolution in Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)
* J. Breuilly, The Formation of the First German Nation State, 1800–1871 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
* J. Breuilly (ed.), Nineteenth-century Germany: Politics, Culture and Society (London: Arnold, 2000)
J. Breuilly (ed.), The State of Germany: the National Idea in the Making, Unmaking and Remaking of a Modern Nation-State (London: Longman, 1992)
R. Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
A. Confino, The Nation as Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany and National Memory, 1871–1918 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
* G. Craig, Germany 1866–1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981)
U. Daniel, The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War (Oxford: Berg, 1997)
P. Dwyer (ed.), Modern Prussian History 1830–1947 (Harlow: Pearson, 2001)
R. J. Evans, Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830–1910 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
N. Ferguson, The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane, 1998)
U. Frevert, Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation (Oxford: Berg, 1989)
M. Levinger, Enlightened Nationalism: the Transformation of Prussian Political Culture 1804–1848 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
* T. Nipperdey, Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck, 1800–1866 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996)
J. N. Retallack, Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
H. Schulze, The Course of German Nationalism. From Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 1763–1867 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
* J. Sheehan, German History 1770–1866 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)
J. Sheehan, German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (London: Methuen, 1982)
* W. Siemann, The German Revolution of 1848–49 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998)
B. Simms, The Impact of Napoleon. Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797–1806 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
* B. Simms, The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779–1850 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998)
H. W. Smith, German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995)
G. Steinmetz, Regulating the Social: the Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993)
M. Umbach (ed.), German Federalism: Past, Present and Future (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002)
Germany Since 1918: General Overviews
* V. Berghahn, Modern Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1987)
* W. Carr, A History of Germany, 1815–1990 (London: Edward Arnold, 4th edn, 1991)
* M. Fulbrook, History of Germany, 1918–2000: the Divided Nation (Oxford: Blackwell, 2nd edn, 2002)
* M. Fulbrook (ed.), Twentieth-century Germany: Politics, Culture and Society (London: Arnold, 2001)
G. Martel (ed.), Modern Germany Reconsidered (London: Routledge, 1992)
Germany 1918–1945
The Weimar Republic, 1918–1933
R. Bessel, Germany after the First World War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
M. Broszat, Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1987)
T. Childers, The Nazi Voter (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983)
G. Feldman, The Great Disorder. Politics, Economics and Society in the German Inflation 1914–1924 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
N. Ferguson, Paper and Iron. Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897–1927 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
E. J. Feuchtwanger, From Weimar to Hitler: Germany 1918–1933 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2nd edn, 1995)
C. Fischer, The Rise of the Nazis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2nd edn, 2002)
H. Heiber, The Weimar Republic (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)
H. James, The German Slump (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
L. E. Jones, German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System 1918–1933 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)
I. Kershaw (ed.), Weimar: Why did German Democracy Fail? (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)
* E. Kolb, The Weimar Republic (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988)
H. Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
J. Noakes and G. Pridham (eds.), Nazism, vol. 1: Hitler's Rise to Power (Exeter: Exeter Studies in History, 1983)
* D. Peukert, The Weimar Republic: the Crisis of Classical Modernity (London: Allen Lane, 1991)
H. A. Turner, German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)
The Third Reich, 1933–1945
G. Aly, ‘Final Solution’. Nazi Population Policy and the Murder of the European Jews (London: Arnold, 1999)
M. Balfour, Withstanding Hitler (London: Routledge, 1988)
D. Bankier, The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
O. Bartov (ed.), The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (London: Routledge, 2000)
K. D. Bracher, The German Dictatorship (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975)
M. Broszat, The Hitler State (London: Longman, 1981)
C. Browning, Fateful Months (New York: Holmes and Meier, revised edn, 1991)
C. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
C. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (London: HarperCollins, 1992)
C. Browning, The Path to Genocide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
M. Burleigh, The Third Reich: a New History (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
M. Burleigh and W. Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933–45 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
P. Burrin, Hitler and the Jews (London: Edward Arnold, 1994)
D. Crew (ed.), Nazism and German Society (London: Routledge, 1994)
G. Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985)
N. Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993)
R. Gellately, Backing Hitler. Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
R. Gellately, The Gestapo and German Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
D. Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (London: Little, Brown and Co., 1996)
S. Gordon, Hitler, Germans and the ‘Jewish Question’ (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984)
U. Herbert (ed.), National Socialist Extermination Policies: Contemporary German Perspectives and Controversies (Oxford: Berghahn, 2000)
R. Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3 vols. (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985)
G. Hirschfeld and L. Kettenacker (eds.), The Führer-state: Myth and Reality (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981)
I. Kershaw, Hitler, vol. I: Hubris, 1889–1936 (London: Penguin, 1998)
I. Kershaw, Hitler, vol. II: Nemesis, 1936–1945 (London: Penguin, 2000)
I. Kershaw, Hitler: a Profile in Power (London: Longman, 1991)
I. Kershaw, The Hitler Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
* I. Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship (London: Arnold, 4th edn, 2000)
I. Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983)
C. Leitz (ed.), The Third Reich (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
M. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988)
T. Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
T. Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (Oxford: Berg, 1993)
J. Noakes and G. Pridham, Nazism, vol. II: State, Economy and Society, 1933–1939 (Exeter: Exeter Studies in History, 1984)
J. Noakes and G. Pridham, Nazism, vol. III: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination (Exeter: Exeter Studies in History, 1988)
J. Noakes and G. Pridham, Nazism, vol. IV: The German Home Front in World War II (Exeter: Exeter Studies in History, 1998)
R. Overy, The Nazi Economic Recovery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn, 1996)
R. Overy, War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
R. Overy, Why the Allies Won (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995)
D. Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany (London: Batsford, 1987)
R. Shandley (ed.), Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998)
J. Stephenson, Women in Nazi Germany (Harlow: Pearson, 2001)
D. Welch, The Third Reich. Politics and Propaganda (London: Routledge, 2nd edn, 2002)
Germany Since 1945: Divided and Unified
M. Allinson, Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany, 1945–68 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
T. Garton Ash, In Europe's Name (New York: Random House, 1993)
M. Balfour, Germany: the Tides of Power (London: Routledge, 1992)
D. Childs and R. Popplewell, The Stasi. The East German Intelligence and Security Service (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
D. P. Conradt, The German Polity (London: Longman, 4th edn, 1989)
* M. Dennis, The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic, 1945–1990 (Harlow: Pearson, 2000)
L. Edinger, West German Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
M. Fulbrook, Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949–1989 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
M. Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999)
* M. Fulbrook, Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945–1990 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2nd edn, 2000)
G.-J. Glaessner, The Unification Process in Germany (London: Pinter, 1992)
G.-J. Glaessner and I. Wallace (eds.), The German Revolution of 1989 (Oxford: Berg, 1992)
A. Glees, Reinventing Germany (Oxford: Berg, 1996)
P. Grieder, The East German Leadership 1946–73: Conflict and Crisis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999)
K. Jarausch, The Rush to German Unity (Oxford: Berghahn, 1994)
K. Jarausch (ed.), Dictatorship as Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (Oxford: Berghahn, 1999)
K. Jarausch and V. Gransow (eds.), Uniting Germany: Documents and Debates (Oxford: Berghahn, 1994)
L. Kettenacker, Germany since 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
C. Kleßmann (ed.), The Divided Past. Rewriting Post-War German History (Oxford: Berg, 2001)
J. Kopstein, The Politics of Economic Decline (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
A. Kramer, The West German Economy (Oxford: Berg, 1991)
K. Larres and P. Panayi (eds.), The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949: Politics, Society and Economy before and after Unification (London: Longman, 1996)
C. Maier, Dissolution (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997)
P. Major and J. Osmond (eds.), The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945–71 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002)
A. J. McAdams, Germany Divided (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993)
A. J. McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
L. H. McFalls, Communism's Collapse, Democracy's Demise? (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
P. H. Merkl (ed.), The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty-five: Union without Unity (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
N. Naimark, The Russians in Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995)
* A. J. Nicholls, The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945–1990 (London: Longman, 1997)
J. Osmond (ed.), German Reunification (Harlow: Longman, 1992)
* P. Pulzer, German Politics 1945–1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
C. Ross, Constructing Socialism at the Grassroots (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
* C. Ross, The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR (London: Arnold, 2002)
H. P. Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, 2 vols. (Providence, R. I.: Berghahn, 1995, 1997)
G. Smith, W. Paterson, P. H. Merkl (eds.), Developments in West German Politics (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989)
G. Smith, W. Paterson, P. H. Merkl, S. Padgett (eds.), Developments in German Politics (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992)
* G. Smith, W. Paterson, S. Padgett (eds.), Developments in German Politics 2 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
S. Szabo, The Diplomacy of German Unification (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992)
H. A. Turner, Germany from Partition to Reunification (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992)
P. Zelikow and C. Rice, Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995)

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