Editing History of Germany (section)

==Further reading==

===Surveys===
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* Bithell, Jethro, ed. (1955) ''Germany: A Companion to German Studies'' (5th ed.); essays on German literature, music, philosophy, art and, especially, history.
* Bösch, Frank. (2015) ''Mass Media and Historical Change: Germany in International Perspective, 1400 to the Present'' (Berghahn). [https://networks.h-net.org/node/35008/reviews/132865/seul-b%C3%B6sch-mass-media-and-historical-change-germany-international online review]
* Buse, Dieter K. ed. (1998) ''Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture 1871–1990''
* Detwiler, Donald S. (1999) ''Germany: A Short History'' (3rd ed.)
* {{Cite book |last=Fulbrook |first=Mary |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521368360 |title=A Concise History of Germany |date=1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-5213-6836-0 |series=Cambridge concise histories |url-access=registration}} This text has updated editions.
* Gall, Lothar. (2003) ''Milestones – Setbacks – Sidetracks: The Path to Parliamentary Democracy in Germany, Historical Exhibition in the Deutscher Dom in Berlin'', exhibit catalog; heavily illustrated; political history since 1800
* [[Ulrich Herbert|Herbert, Ulrich.]] (2019) ''A History of Twentieth-Century Germany''
* Kitchen, Martin. (2006) ''A history of modern Germany, 1800–2000'' [https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderng0000kitc online]
* Maehl, William Harvey. (1979) ''Germany in Western Civilization''; focus on politics and diplomacy
* Orlow, Dietrich. (2002) ''A history of modern Germany : 1871 to present'' [https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderng00orlo online]
* Raff, Diether. (1988) ''History of Germany from the Medieval Empire to the Present''
* Reinhardt, Kurt F. (1961) ''Germany: 2000 Years'' stress on cultural topics
* [[Hagen Schulze|Schulze, Hagen]], and Deborah Lucas Schneider. (2001) ''Germany: A New History''
* [[Helmut Walser Smith|Smith, Helmut Walser]], ed. (2011) ''The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History'', 862 pp; 35 essays by specialists; Germany since 1760
* {{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Helmut Walser |title=Germany, a nation in its time : before, during, and after nationalism, 1500–2000 |date=2020 |isbn=978-0-8714-0466-4 |edition=First |location=New York, NY}}
* Snyder, Louis, ed. (1958) ''Documents of German history'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.186509 online]. 167 primary sources in English translation
* {{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=A.J.P. |date=2001 |title=The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815 |title-link= The Course of German History |isbn=0-4152-5558-9 |ol=3949947M |publisher=Routledge |orig-date=1945 |author-link=A. J. P. Taylor}}
* Watson, Peter. (2010) ''The German Genius''. 992 pp covers many thinkers, writers, scientists etc. since 1750; {{ISBN|978-0-7432-8553-7}}
* Winkler, Heinrich August. (2006) ''Germany: The Long Road West'', since 1789
* Zabecki, David T., ed. (2015) ''Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History''
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===Medieval===
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* Arnold, Benjamin. (1998) ''Medieval Germany, 500–1300: A Political Interpretation''
* Arnold, Benjamin. (2004) ''Power and Property in Medieval Germany: Economic and Social Change, c. 900–1300'' (Oxford University Press)
* {{Cite book |last=Goffart |first=Walter A. |title=The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon |date=1988 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-6910-5514-5 |hdl=2027/heb.01027}}
* Haverkamp, Alfred, Helga Braun, and Richard Mortimer. (1992) ''Medieval Germany 1056–1273''
* Innes; Matthew. (2000) ''State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400–1000'' (Cambridge University Press)
* Jeep, John M. (2001) ''Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia'', 650 articles by 200 scholars cover AD 500 to 1500
* Nicholas, David. (2009) ''The Northern Lands: Germanic Europe, c. 1270 – c. 1500'' (Wiley-Blackwell).
* Reuter, Timothy. (1991) ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages, c. 800–1056''
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===Reformation===
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* Bainton, Roland H. (1978; reprinted 1995) ''Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther''
* Dickens, A. G. (1969) ''Martin Luther and the Reformation'', basic introduction
* Junghans, Helmar. (1998) ''Martin Luther: Exploring His Life and Times, 1483–1546.''
* MacCulloch, Diarmaid. (2005) ''The Reformation'', influential recent survey
* Ranke, Leopold von. (1905) ''History of the Reformation in Germany'' 792 pp; by Germany's foremost scholar [https://books.google.com/books?id=KPdBAAAAIAAJ complete text online free]
* Smith, Preserved. (1920) ''The Age of the Reformation''; [https://archive.org/details/agereformation03smitgoog complete text online free]
* Robert A. Kann, (n.d). A HISTORY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1526–1918.
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===Early Modern to 1815===
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* [[Asprey, Robert B.]] (2007) ''Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma''
* Atkinson, C.T. (1908) ''A history of Germany, 1715–1815'' old; focus on political-military-diplomatic history of Germany and Austria [https://archive.org/details/ahistorygermany00atkigoog online edition]
* [[Blanning, Tim]]. (2016) ''Frederick the Great: King of Prussia'', major new scholarly biography
* Bruford W.H. (1935, 1971) ''Germany in the Eighteenth Century The Social Background of the Literary Revival''[https://archive.org/details/germanyineightee00bruf online free to borrow], covers social history
* Gagliardo, John G. (1991) ''Germany under the Old Regime 1600–1790''
* Gaxotte, Pierre. (1942) ''Frederick the Great'', Yale University Press; political biography by French historian
* Heal, Bridget. (2007) ''The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500–1648''
* Hughes, Michael. (1992) ''Early Modern Germany, 1477–1806''
* [[Sheilagh Ogilvie|Ogilvie, Sheilagh]]. (1996) ''Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Vol. 1: 1450–1630'' (1995); ''Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Vol. 2: 1630–1800''
* Ogilvie, Sheilagh. (2003) ''A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany'' DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205548.001.0001 online
* [[Ozment, Steven]]. (2001) ''Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany''.
* Schulze, Hagen. (1991) ''The Course of German Nationalism: From Frederick the Great to Bismarck 1763–1867''
* Storring, Adam L. (2021) "'Our Age': Frederick the Great, Classical Warfare, and the Uses and Abuses of Military History." ''International Journal of Military History and Historiography'' 1.aop: 1–33.[https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/329947/Our%20Age_Frederick%20the%20Great,%20Classical%20Warfare,%20and%20the%20Uses%20and%20Abuses%20of%20Military%20History.pdf?sequence=1 online]
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===1815–1890===
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* {{Cite book |last=Blackbourn |first=David |title=The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780–1918 |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-1950-7672-9 |location=New York |author-link=David Blackbourn}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Blackbourn |first1=David |title=The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany |last2=Eley |first2=Geoff |date=1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1987-3057-6 |location=Oxford & New York |author-link=David Blackbourn |author-link2=Geoff Eley}}
* Brandenburg, Erich. (1933) ''From Bismarck to the World War: A History of German Foreign Policy 1870–1914''; an old standard scholarly history
* Brose, Eric Dorn. (1997) ''German History, 1789–1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich.''
* Craig, Gordon A. (1978) ''Germany, 1866–1945'' [https://archive.org/details/germany186619450000crai online]
* Hamerow, Theodore S. ed. (1974) ''Age of Bismarck: Documents and Interpretations''; 133 excerpts from primary sources put in historical context by Professor Hamerow
* Hamerow, Theodore S. ed. (1993) ''Otto Von Bismarck and Imperial Germany: A Historical Assessment'', excerpts from historians and primary sources
* [[Katja Hoyer|Hoyer, Katja]]. (2021) ''Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918''
* Ogilvie, Sheilagh, and Richard Overy. (2004) ''Germany: A New Social and Economic History Volume 3: Since 1800''
* Pflanze Otto, ed. (1979) ''The Unification of Germany, 1848–1871'', essays by historians
* Ramm, Agatha. (1967) ''Germany, 1789–1919: a political history'' [https://archive.org/details/germany17891919p0000ramm online free to borrow]
* Sheehan, James J. (1993) ''German History, 1770–1866'', the major survey in English [https://archive.org/details/germanhistory17700shee online]
* Steinberg, Jonathan. (2011) ''Bismarck: A Life'', a major scholarly biography
* Stern, Fritz. (1979) ''Gold and Iron: Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire'' Bismark worked closely with this leading banker and financier
* {{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=A.J.P. |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.543989 |title=Bismarck: the Man and the Statesman |date=1969 |publisher=Alfred A Knopf |isbn=978-0-3947-0387-9 |location=New York |ol=7461954M |author-link=A.J.P. Taylor |orig-date=1955}}
* Wehler, Hans-Ulrich. (1984) ''The German Empire 1871–1918''
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===1890–1933===
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* Balfour, Michael. (1972) ''The Kaiser and his Times'' [https://archive.org/details/kaiserhistimes0000balf_v0r1 online]
* Berghahn, Volker Rolf. (1987) ''Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01673 ACLS E-book]
* Berghahn, Volker Rolf. (2005) ''Imperial Germany, 1871–1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics'' (2nd ed.)
* Brandenburg, Erich. (1927) ''From Bismarck to the World War: A History of German Foreign Policy 1870–1914'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175229/http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/12322 online].
* Cecil, Lamar. (1996) ''Wilhelm II: Prince and Emperor, 1859–1900''
* Cecil, Lamar. (1989) vol2: ''Wilhelm II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941''
* Child, John. (2009) ''Edexcel GCSE History A : the making of the modern world : Unit 2A, Germany 1918–39 : student book'' [https://archive.org/details/edexcelgcsehisto0000chil_f9a0 online]
* Craig, Gordon A. (1978) ''Germany, 1866–1945'' [https://archive.org/details/germany186619450000crai online]
* Dugdale, E.T.S. ed. ''German Diplomatic Documents 1871–1914'' (1928–31), in English translation. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28Dugdale%29%20german online]
* Gordon, Peter E., and John P. McCormick, eds. (2013) ''Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy'' (Princeton University Press); scholarly essays on law, culture, politics, philosophy, science, art and architecture
* [[Ulrich Herbert|Herbert, Ulrich.]] (2019) ''A History of Twentieth-Century Germany''
* Herwig, Holger H. (1996) ''The First World War: Germany and Austria–Hungary 1914–1918'', {{ISBN|0-3405-7348-1}}
* Kolb, Eberhard. (2005) ''The Weimar Republic''
* Mommsen, Wolfgang J. (1995) ''Imperial Germany 1867–1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State''
* Morrow, Ian F. D. "The Foreign Policy of Prince Von Bulow, 1898–1909". ''Cambridge Historical Journal'' 4#1 (1932): 63–93. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020573 online]
* Peukert, Detlev. (1993) ''The Weimar Republic''
* Retallack, James. (2008) ''Imperial Germany, 1871–1918'' (Oxford University Press)
* Scheck, Raffael. (2008) "Lecture Notes, Germany and Europe, 1871–1945" [https://web.archive.org/web/20010406134004/https://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/Contents.html full text online], a brief textbook
* Stolper, Gustav. (2017) ''German Economy, 1870–1940: Issues and Trends'' (Routledge).
* Watson, Alexander. (2014) ''Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I''
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===Nazi era===
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* Bullock, Alan. (1962) ''Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, '' [https://archive.org/details/hitlerstudyintyr0000bull online]
* Burleigh, Michael. (2000) ''The Third Reich: A New History.''. Stress on antisemitism;
* {{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Richard J. |title=The Third Reich at War |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-5942-0206-3 |language=de |trans-title=Das Dritte Reich. Krieg |ol=22665338M |author-link=Richard J. Evans |orig-date=2005 |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Press}}
* Friedlander, Saul. (2009) ''Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945'' abridged version of the standard history
* [[Ulrich Herbert|Herbert, Ulrich.]] (2019) ''A History of Twentieth-Century Germany''
* Kershaw, Ian. (1999) ''Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris.'' vol. 1.
* Kershaw, Ian. (2000) ''Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis.'' vol 2.
* Kirk, Tim. (2017) ''The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany''.
* Koonz, Claudia. (1986) ''Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, Family Life, and Nazi Ideology, 1919–1945.''
* Overy, Richard. (2004) ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia''; comparative history
* Spielvogel, Jackson J. and David Redles. (2009) ''Hitler and Nazi Germany'' (6th ed.)
* Stackelberg, Roderick. (1999) ''Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies''
* Stackelberg, Roderick, ed. (2007) ''The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany''
* Stibbe, Matthew. (2003) ''Women in the Third Reich,'', 208 pp.
* Tooze, Adam. (2007) ''The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy''
* Thomsett, Michael C. (2007) ''The German Opposition to Hitler: The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots, 1938–1945'' (2nd ed)
* Zentner, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann, eds. (1991) ''[[The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich]]''.
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===Since 1945===
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* {{Cite book |last1=Bark |first1=Dennis L. |title=A History of West Germany |last2=Gress |first2=David R. |date=1992 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-0-6311-6787-7 |volume=1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963 |ol=2058977M}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Bark |first1=Dennis L. |title=A History of West Germany |last2=Gress |first2=David R. |date=1992 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-1-5578-6322-5 |volume=2: Democracy and Its Discontents 1963–1991 |ol=8602440M |author-mask=1 |author-mask2=1}}
* Berghahn, Volker Rolf. (1987) ''Modern Germany: Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01673 ACLS E-book online]
* [[Andreas Daum|Daum, Andreas]]. (2008) ''Kennedy in Berlin''. New York: Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-5218-5824-3}}.
* Gehler, Michael. (2013) ''Three Germanies: West Germany, East Germany and the Berlin Republic'' (Reaktion Books).
* Hanrieder, Wolfram F. (1989) ''Germany, America, Europe: Forty Years of German Foreign Policy'' {{ISBN|0-3000-4022-9}}
* [[Ulrich Herbert|Herbert, Ulrich.]] (2019) ''A History of Twentieth-Century Germany''
* Jähner, Harald. (2022) ''Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955''
* Jarausch, Konrad H. (2008) ''After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995''
* Junker, Detlef, ed. (2004) ''The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War'', 150 short essays by scholars covering 1945–1990
* Main, Steven J. (2014) "The Soviet Occupation of Germany. Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945–1947". ''Europe-Asia Studies'' 66#8 pp: 1380–1382.
* Schwarz, Hans-Peter. (1995) ''Konrad Adenauer: A German Politician and Statesman in a Period of War, Revolution and Reconstruction''[https://books.google.com/books?id=T4vQw1RNkQ8C excerpt and text search vol 2]
* Smith, Gordon, ed, (1992) ''Developments in German Politics'' {{ISBN|0-8223-1266-2}}, broad survey of reunified nation
* {{Cite book |title=Documents on Germany under Occupation, 1945–1954 |date=1955 |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor-last=Von Oppen |editor-first=Beate Ruhm |oclc=1980291 |ol=7206115W}}
* Weber, Jurgen. (2004) ''Germany, 1945–1990'' (Central European University Press)
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===GDR===
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* Dennis, Mike, and Norman LaPorte. (2011) ''State and Minorities in Communist East Germany'' (Berghahn Books) scholarly analysis of treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, guest workers from Vietnam and Mozambique, football fans and others.
* Fulbrook, Mary. (1998) ''Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949–1989''
* Fulbrook, Mary. (2008) ''The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker''
* Harsch, Donna. (2008) ''Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic''
* Jarausch, Konrad H.. and Eve Duffy. (1999) ''Dictatorship As Experience: Towards a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR''
* Jarausch, Konrad H., and Volker Gransow, eds. (1994) ''Uniting Germany: Documents and Debates, 1944–1993'', primary sources on reunification
* McAdams, A. James. (1992 and 1993) "Germany Divided: From the Wall to Reunification". Princeton University Press
* Pence, Katherine, and Paul Betts, eds. (2008) ''Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics''
* Pritchard, Gareth. (2004) ''The Making of the GDR, 1945–53''
* Ross, Corey. (2002) ''The East German Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR''
* Saxonberg, Steven. (2013) ''The fall: A comparative study of the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland'' (Routledge).
* Steiner, André. (2010) ''The Plans That Failed: An Economic History of East Germany, 1945–1989''
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===Historiography===
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* Berghahn, Volker R., and Simone Lassig, eds. (2008) ''Biography between Structure and Agency: Central European Lives in International Historiography''
* Chickering, Roger, ed. (1996) ''Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion''; 18 essays by specialists;
* Evans, Richard J. (1997) ''Rereading German History: From Unification to Reunification, 1800–1996''
* Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert, eds. (2008) ''Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography''
* {{Cite journal |last=Hagemann |first=Karen |date=2007 |title=From the Margins to the Mainstream? Women's and Gender History in Germany |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-womens-history_spring-2007_19_1/page/193 |journal=Journal of Women's History |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=193–199 |doi=10.1353/jowh.2007.0014 |s2cid=143068850}}
* Hagen, William W. (2012) ''German History in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation''
* Jarausch, Konrad H., and Michael Geyer, eds. (2003) ''Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories''
* Klessmann, Christoph. (2001) ''The Divided Past: Rewriting Post-War German History''
* Lehmann, Hartmut, and James Van Horn Melton, eds. (2003) ''Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s''
* Perkins, J. A. (April 1986) "Dualism in German Agrarian Historiography, ''Comparative Studies in Society and History,'' Vol. 28 Issue 2, pp 287–330,
* Rüger, Jan, and Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds. (2015) ''Rewriting German history: New Perspectives on Modern Germany'' (Palgrave Macmillan).
* Stuchtey, Benedikt, and Peter Wende, eds. (2000) ''British and German Historiography, 1750–1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers''
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