Editing German Empire (section)

==Further reading==
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* {{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Germany |volume= 11 |last1= Ashworth |first1= Philip Arthur |author1-link= Philip Arthur Ashworth |last2= Lake |first2= Philip |last3= Atkinson |first3= Charles Francis |pages=804–828 and more to page 901}}
* {{Cite book |last=Barker |first=J. Ellis |title=Modern Germany; her political and economic problems, her foreign and domestic policy, her ambitions, and the causes of her success |date=1907 |ol=1116423W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Berghahn |first=Volker Rolf |author-link=Volker Berghahn |title=Modern Germany: society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century |date=1982 |isbn=0-5212-3185-X |ol=2135748W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Berghahn |first=Volker Rolf |author-link=Volker Berghahn |title=Imperial Germany, 1871–1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics |date=1994 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=1-5718-1013-7 |ol=OL2135746W |author-mask=2}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Berghahn |first=Volker Rolf |author-link=Volker Berghahn |author-mask=2 |date=2017 |title=German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler |journal=German Studies Review |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=147–162 |doi=10.1353/gsr.2017.0007}}
* {{Cite book |last=Blackbourn |first=David |author-link=David Blackbourn |title=The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780–1918 |date=1998}}
* {{Cite book |last=Blackbourn |first=David |author-link=David Blackbourn |title=The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany |last2=Eley |first2=Geoff |date=1984 |isbn=0-1987-3058-6 |ol=16949193W |author-mask=2}}
* {{Cite book |last=Blanke |first=Richard |title=Prussian Poland in the German Empire |date=1981 |publisher=East European Monographs via Columbia University Press |isbn=0-9147-1080-X |ol=OL4291917W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Brandenburg |first=Erich |author-link=Erich Brandenburg |title=From Bismarck to the World War: A History of German Foreign Policy 1870–1914 |date=1927 |ol=1233526W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Cecil |first=Lamar |author-link=Lamar John Ryan Cecil |title=Wilhelm II |date=1989 |isbn=0-8078-1828-3 |volume=1: Prince and Emperor, 1859–1900 |ol=4639438W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=William Harbutt |title=Bismarck and state socialism; an exposition of the social and economic legislation of Germany since 1870 |date=1890 |ol=123112W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=William Harbutt |title=Germany and the Germans |date=1894 |volume=2 |ol=OL123092W |author-mask=2}}, politics and parties
* {{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=William Harbutt |title=Germany at home |date=1908 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |location=London |oclc=2955563 |ol=OL9217702W |author-mask=2}}, social life in villages and cities
* {{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=William Harbutt |title=The Evolution of Modern Germany |date=1908 |ol=OL123114W |author-mask=2}}, covers 1871–1906 with focus on social and economic history and colonies
* {{Cite book |last=Dawson |first=William Harbutt |title=Municipal life and government in Germany |date=1914 |ol=OL123105W |author-mask=2}}, describes the workings of local government and bureaucracy
* {{Cite book |last=Eyck |first=Erich |author-link=Erich Eyck |title=Bismarck and the German Empire |date=1968 |isbn=978-0-3930-0235-5 |ol=6070500M |orig-date=1950}}
* {{Cite book |last=Fife |first=Robert Herndon |author-link=Robert Herndon Fife, Jr. |title=The German Empire between Two Wars; a Study of the Political and Social Development of the Nation between 1871 and 1914 |date=1916 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |ol=6605131W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Fischer |first=Fritz |author-link=Fritz Fischer (historian) |title=From Kaiserreich to Third Reich: Elements of Continuity in German History, 1871–1945 |date=1986 |isbn=0-0494-3043-2}}
* {{Cite book |last=Geiss |first=Imanuel |author-link=Imanuel Geiss |title=German Foreign Policy, 1871–1914 |date=1976 |isbn=0-7100-8303-3 |ol=1410460W}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Hayes |first=Carlton J. H. |date=October 1917 |title=The History of German Socialism Reconsidered |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=62–101 |doi=10.2307/1837686 |jstor=1837686 |ref=none |doi-access=free |jstor-access=free}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Hewitson |first=Mark |date=June 2000 |title=Germany and France before the First World War: a reassessment of Wilhelmine foreign policy |journal=English Historical Review |volume=115 |issue=462 |pages=570–606 |doi=10.1093/ehr/115.462.570 |jstor=579667}}, argues Germany had a growing sense of military superiority
* {{Cite book |last=Hoyer |first=Katja |author-link=Katja Hoyer |title=Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 |date=2021 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7509-9622-8 |ol=OL32753556M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Kennedy |title=The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914 |date=1988 |isbn=1-5739-2301-X |edition=2nd |ol=5930774W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Koch |first=Hannsjoachim W. |title=A constitutional history of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |date=1984 |publisher=Longman |isbn=0-5824-9182-7 |ol=4541563W}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kurlander |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Kurlander |title=The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898–1933 |date=2007 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-8007-3362-6 |ol=9288474W}}
* {{Cite book |title=Antisemitism: A historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution |date=2005 |publisher=Abc-clio |isbn=978-1-8510-9444-8 |editor-last=Levy |editor-first=Richard S. |editor-link=Richard S. Levy |ol=OL7010780W}}
* {{Cite book |title=The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-5218-2408-7 |editor-last=Mombauer |editor-first=Annika |editor-link=Annika Mombauer |ol=18360784W |editor-last2=Deist |editor-first2=Wilhelm |editor-link2=Wilhelm Deist}}
* {{Cite book |last=Mommsen |first=Wolfgang |author-link=Wolfgang Mommsen |title=Imperial Germany 1867–1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State |date=1995 |isbn=0-3406-4534-2 |ol=795874M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Nipperdey |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Nipperdey |title=Germany from Napoleon to Bismarck |date=1996 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-6910-2636-X |ol=1273142M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Padfield |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Padfield |title=The Great Naval Race: Anglo-German Naval Rivalry 1900–1914 |date=1974 |publisher=Hart-Davis, MacGibbon |isbn=0-2461-0578-X |ol=5231945M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ragins |first=Sanford |title=Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism in Germany, 1870–1914: A Study in the History of Ideas |date=1980 |publisher=Hebrew Union College Press |isbn=0-8782-0115-7 |ol=4098851M}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Reagin |first=Nancy |date=2001 |title=The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany |journal=Journal of Modern History |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=54–86 |doi=10.1086/319879 |jstor=10.1086/319879 |pmid=18335627 |s2cid=37192065 |ref=none}}
* {{Cite book |last=Retallack |first=James |title=Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II |date=1996 |publisher=Macmillan, St. Martin's Press |isbn=0-3121-6031-3 |ol=OL968133M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Retallack |first=James |title=Imperial Germany 1871–1918 |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1992-0487-8 |ol=OL16956477W |author-mask=2}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Rich |first=Norman |date=1973 |title=The Question of National Interest in Imperial German Foreign Policy: Bismarck, William II, and the Road to World War I |journal=Naval War College Review |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=28–41 |jstor=44641416}}
* {{Cite book |last=Ritter |first=Gerhard |author-link=Gerhard Ritter |title=The Sword and the Scepter; the Problem of Militarism in Germany |date=1969–1973 |publisher=University of Miami Press |isbn=0-8702-4127-3 |ol=OL5621722M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Richie |first=Alexandra |title=Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin |date=1998 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |isbn=0-7867-0510-8 |pages=188–233 |ol=OL356929M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Sagarra |first=Eda |title=A Social History of Germany, 1648–1914 |date=1977 |publisher=Holmes & Meier |isbn=0-8419-0332-8 |ol=OL21299230M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Scheck |first=Raffael |url=http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/Contents.html |title=Lecture Notes, Germany and Europe, 1871–1945 |date=2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324100055/http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/Contents.html |archive-date=24 March 2012}}, a brief textbook
* {{Cite book |last=Schollgen |first=Gregor |title=Escape into War? The Foreign Policy of Imperial Germany |date=1990 |publisher=Berg |isbn=978-0-8549-6275-4 |series=German Historical Perspectives |ol=OL8300056M}}
* {{Cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1992-3739-5 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Helmut Walser |editor-link=Helmut Walser Smith |ol=OL25132767M}}, essays by specialists on Germany since 1760
* {{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Woodruff D. |title=The German Colonial Empire |date=1978 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=0-8078-1322-2 |ol=21370631M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Sperber |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Sperber |title=The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-5215-9138-4 |ol=1005753M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Fritz |author-link=Fritz Stern |title=Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire |date=1977 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=0-3944-9545-4 |ol=4893220M}}, biography of leading banker and financier who worked closely with Bismarck
* {{Cite book |last=Steinberg |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Steinberg (historian) |title=Bismarck: A Life |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-1997-8252-9 |ol=OL24881585M}}, biography emphasizing Bismarck's personality
* {{Cite book |last=Steinmetz |first=George |author-link=George Steinmetz (academic) |title=The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa |date=2007 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-2267-7243-1 |series=Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning |location=Chicago |ol=OL10193058M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=A. J. P. |author-link=A. J. P. Taylor |title=Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman |date=1967 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-3947-0387-9 |ol=22078389M |orig-date=1955 |ref={{SfnRef|Taylor, A. J. P.|1967}}}}
* {{Cite book |last=Vizetelly |first=Henry |author-link=Henry Vizetelly |title=Berlin under the New Empire; its institutions, inhabitants, industry, monuments, museums, social life, manners, and amusements |date=1879 |publisher=Tinsley bros. |volume=II |location=New York |ol=23384113M}}
* {{Cite book |last=Wildenthal |first=Lora |title=German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 |date=2001 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-8095-5 |ol=26832197M}}
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=== Historiography ===
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* {{Cite book |last=Berghahn |first=Volker Rolf |author-link=Volker Berghahn |title=The Kaiser: new research on Wilhelm II's role in imperial Germany |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-5218-2408-8 |editor-last=Mombauer |editor-first=Annika |location=Cambridge, UK; New York |pages=281–293 |chapter=Structure and agency in Wilhelmine Germany: the history of the German Empire – past, present, and future |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511496790.014 |oclc=ocm52239699 |editor-last2=Deist |editor-first2=Wilhelm}}
* {{Cite book |title=Imperial Germany: a historiographical companion |date=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-3132-7641-5 |editor-last=Chickering |editor-first=Roger |location=Westport, Connecticut}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Dickinson |first=E. R. |date=September 2008 |title=The German Empire: an Empire? |journal=History Workshop Journal |language=en |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=129–162 |doi=10.1093/hwj/dbn028 |issn=1363-3554}}, with guide to recent scholarship
* {{Cite book |last=Eley |first=Geoff |title=Wilhelminism and its legacies: German modernities, Imperialism, and the meanings of reform, 1890-1930: essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann |last2=Retallack |first2=James |date=2004 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-1-5718-1687-0 |editor-last=Eley |editor-first=Geoff |location=New York; Oxford |chapter=Introduction |ref=none |editor-last2=Retallack |editor-first2=James N. |editor-last3=Pogge von Strandmann |editor-first3=Hartmut}}
* {{Cite book |last=Jefferies |first=Matthew |title=Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918 |date=2008 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |isbn=978-1-4051-2996-1 |series=Contesting the past |location=Malden, Massachusetts; Oxford}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Reagin |first=Nancy R. |date=June 2004 |title=Recent Work on German National Identity: Regional? Imperial? Gendered? Imaginary? |journal=Central European History |language=en |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=273–289 |doi=10.1163/156916104323121483 |issn=0008-9389 |jstor=4547409}}
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