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The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History
Edited by Helmut Walser Smith
880 pages
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2 maps
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246x171mm
978-0-19-923739-5
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Hardback
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29 September 2011
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- Comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history from 1760 to the present, featuring cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars
- Places German history in a clearer transnational context than any other history of Germany
- Reaches out beyond the confines of traditional historiography to include essays on literary history and contemporary Germany
- An indispensable resource for all scholars and students of modern German history
This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on
religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.'
Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone
interested in modern Germany.Readership: Scholars and students of modern German history
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Edited by Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Helmut Walser Smith is Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History and Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University. A scholar of German nationalism, religious history, and anti-Semitism, he is a specialist on Imperial Germany and has written on the long continuities of German history. Contributors:
Celia Applegate, University of Rochester
William A. Barbieri Jr., Catholic University of America
Ernest Benz, Smith College
James M. Brophy, University of Delaware
Sebastian Conrad, European University Institute, Florence
Andreas W. Daum, State University of New York, Buffalo
Steve D. Dowden, Brandeis University
Franz Leander Fillafer, University of Konstanz
Robert von Friedeburg, University of Rotterdam
Ann Goldberg, University of California, Riverside
Rebekka Habermas, University of Göttingen
William W. Hagen, University of California, Davis
Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Ludwig Hoffmann, Center for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, and Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Christian Jansen, Technical University of Berlin
Pieter M. Judson, Swarthmore
College
Lutz Koepnick, Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas Kuhne, History at Clark University
Thomas Mergel, Humboldt University, Berlin
Jürgen Osterhammel, University of Konstanz
David F. Patton, Connecticut College
Andrew I. Port, Wayne State University
Uta G. Poiger, University of Washington
Kiran Patel, European University Institute, Florence
Ute Planert, University of Wuppertal
Ritchie Robertson, University of Oxford
Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University
Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri
Philipp Ther, University of Vienna
J. Adam Tooze, Yale University
Cornelius Torp, European University Institute,
Florence, and University of Halle
Siegfried Weichlein, University of Fribourg
Meike G. Werner, Vanderbilt University
George S. Williamson, Florida State University
Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University
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"How else might we organize our thinking about the past? This question is particularly pressing at a time when many look to history for concrete answers and explanations: the media, the general public, school teachers and, last but not least, the students we teach. Oxford University Press have been at the forefront of responding to such demands for general answers by commissioning a series of new handbooks, which included, last year, a new Handbook on Modern German History, edited by Helmut Walser Smith'." - German History
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1: Helmut Walser Smith: Introduction
Part I: History
2: Robert von Friedeburg: The Origins of Modern Germany
3: Celia Applegate: Senses of Place
4: Ann Goldberg: Women and Men: 1760-1960
Part II: States, People and Nation, 1760-1860
5: Ute Planert: International Conflict, War, and the Making of Modern Germany, 1740-1815
6: 1. Jürgen Osterhammel and Franz Leander Fillafer: Cosmopolitanism and the German Enlightenment
7: Jonathan Sperber: The Atlantic Revolutions in the German Lands, 1776-1849
8: James M. Brophy: The End of the Economic Old Order: The Great Transition, 1750-1860
9: Ernest Benz: Escaping Malthus: Population Explosion and Human Movement, 1760-1884
10: George S. Williamson: Protestants, Catholics, and Jews: Enlightenment, Emancipation, New Forms of Piety
11: Christian Jansen: The Formation of German Nationalism, 1740-1850
12: Ritchie Robertson: German Literature and Thought from 1810 to1890
Part III: Germany: The Nation State
13: Siegfried Weichlein: Nation State, Conflict Resolution, and Culture War, 1850-1878
14: Helmut Walser Smith: Authoritarian State, Dynamic Society, Failed Imperialist Power, 1878-1914
15: Cornelius Torp: The Great Transformation: German Economy and Society, 1850-1914
16: Andrew Zimmerman: Race and World Politics: Germany in the Age of Imperialism, 1878-1914
17: Benjamin Ziemann: Germany 1914-1918. Total War as a Catalyst of Change
18: J. Adam Tooze: The German National Economy in an Era of Crisis and War, 1917-1945
19: Thomas Mergel: Democracy and Dictatorship
20: Rebekka Habermas: Piety, Power and Powerlessness: Religion and Religious Groups in Germany, 1870-1945
21: 1. Steve Dowden and Meike G. Werner: The Place of German Modernism
22: Pieter M. Judson: Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State, 1870-1945
23: Thomas Kuhne: Todesraum: War, Peace, and the Experience of Mass Death, 1914-1945
24: William H. Hagen: The Three Horsemen of the Holocaust: Antisemitism, East European Empire, Aryan Folk Community
25: 1. Sebastian Conrad and Philipp Ther: The Uprooted: Expulsion, Exile, Flight, Forced Labor, Expulsion, 1880-1948
Part IV: Germany 1945-1989
26: Stefan Ludwig Hoffman: The Occupation of Germany, a Rubble Society
27: Andrew I. Port: Democracy and Dictatorship in the Cold War: the Two Germanies, 1949-1961
28: Uta Poiger: Generations: The Revolution of the 1960s
29: Donna Harsch: Industrialization, Mass Consumption, Postindustrial Society
30: Benjamin Ziemann: Religion and the Search for Meaning, 1945-1990
31: Lutz Koepnik: Culture in the Shadow of Trauma?
32: Andreas Daum: The Two German States in the International World
Part V: Contemporary Germany
33: David F. Patton: Annus Mirabilis: 1989 and German Unification
34: Kiran Patel: Germany and European Integrations since 1945
35: William A. Barbieri, Jr.: Toward a Multicultural Society?
Index
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