A Concise History of Germany

Mary Fulbrook

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511984631

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Mediaeval Germany

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* B. Arnold, Medieval Germany 500–1300. A Political Interpretation (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)

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Early Modern Germany, C. 1500–1800

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A. G. Dickens, The German Nation and Martin Luther (Glasgow: Collins (Fontana), 1976)

* C. Scott Dixon, The Reformation in Germany (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)

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* 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)

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* H. M. Scott (ed.), Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1990)

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* R. W. Scribner, The German Reformation (London: Macmillan, 1986)

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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)

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* 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)

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N. Ferguson, The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane, 1998)

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* 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)

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* 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)

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Germany Since 1918: General Overviews

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* M. Fulbrook, History of Germany, 1918–2000: the Divided Nation (Oxford: Blackwell, 2nd edn, 2002)

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Germany 1918–1945

The Weimar Republic, 1918–1933

R. Bessel, Germany after the First World War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

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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)

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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)

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The Third Reich, 1933–1945

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C. Browning, The Path to Genocide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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* 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)

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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)

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A. J. McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

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* A. J. Nicholls, The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945–1990 (London: Longman, 1997)

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* P. Pulzer, German Politics 1945–1995 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)

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H. P. Schwarz, Konrad Adenauer, 2 vols. (Providence, R. I.: Berghahn, 1995, 1997)

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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)

A Concise History of Germany

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of illustrations
pp ix-xiv

Preface
pp xv-xviii

1 - INTRODUCTION : THE GERMAN LANDS AND PEOPLE
pp 1-8

2 - MEDIAEVAL GERMANY
pp 9-32

3 - THE AGE OF CONFESSIONALISM, 1500–1648
pp 33-68

4 - THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM, 1648–1815
pp 69-103

5 - THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISATION, 1815–1918
pp 104-154

6 - DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP, 1918–45
pp 155-204

7 - THE TWO GERMANIES, 1945–90
pp 205-249

8 - THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY SINCE 1990
pp 250-257

9 - PATTERNS AND PROBLEMS OF GERMAN HISTORY
pp 258-261

Suggestions for further reading
pp 262-271

Index
pp 272-277

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