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Forthcoming November 2026 Losing and Finding Prussia in the Twentieth Century
German History and the Legacy of a Vanished Kingdom
Mustafa, S. A.
Mustafa examines the changing role of Prussia in the lives of German people, from the founding of the empire in 1871 to the present. He explores the decline of Prussia's power within the Reich and its crisis during the Weimar Republic, and its return to the public consciousness in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2026
The Making of Modern Eating
How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910
Kreklau, C.
Recognizably modern eating practices were forged between 1780 and 1910. This is a study of central European food modernity and middle-class identity that provides fresh footing for discussions in our own changing global era.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Food & Nutrition
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Published April 2025
Germany’s Struggle for Modernity
Society, Economy, Culture, and Politics, 1789-1918
Kocka, J.
In this history of Germany from 1780 to 1918, Jürgen Kocka re-examines the seismic changes that took place within society, economy, culture, and politics. Innovatively resituating these developments within a wider, European context, this book provides fresh insights into the emergence of classical modernity within the nineteenth century.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I
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Published April 2025
Political and Legal History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Jensen, U.
An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published June 2024
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880
Török, B. Z.
The science of Statistik (statistics) by the Habsburg state in the long 19th century was adapted to the political growth of imperial power. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 connects the disciplinary history of German sciences of the state to the integration of territories into the Habsburg state’s evolution.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2024
Social History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Rürup, M.
Social History of German Jews traces the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, and focusses on the ascent of German Jews into the middle and upper-middle classes through both adversity and manifold forms of Jewish self-assertion.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2024
Political Friendship
Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Weaver, M.
Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elite’s interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2024
Gender History of German Jews
A Short Introduction
Schüler-Springorum, S.
Gender History of German Jews is a concise overview of German-Jewish gender agency and change against the “dawn of modernity” across both men and women who dealt with histories of status change, discrimination, persecution, and deportation.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2023
Citizens into Dishonored Felons
Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933
de Groot, T.
Throughout the long nineteenth century felony disenfranchisement affected the moral fabric of German society and coincided with a history of honor in German legal thought. Citizens into Dishonored Felons uses uncommonly extensive archival materials to address the emotional and symbolic impact of punishment as both an enforcement of societal hierarchies and a platform for reform.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2023
The History of Thyssen
Family, Industry and Culture in the 20th Century
Schulz, G. & Szöllösi-Janze, M.
The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published November 2022
Invested Narratives
German Responses to Economic Crisis
Twark, J. (ed)
Narratives of how nations survive, restructure or even fail during economic crisis not only inform future responses to crisis but also strengthen national theoretical, empirical, and analytical financial discourse. Invested Narratives brings together an interdisciplinary set of scholars to address the history of German responses to crisis over the past 200 years.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2021
Germany and the Confessional Divide
Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989
Ruff, M. E. & Großbölting, T. (eds)
Germany confessional identities developed against cultural, religious, and political tensions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Unpacking the conflicted religious history, this collection focuses on defining traumatic events, tracing their origins across division between Catholics and Protestants, hinderance of German unification, and transforming religious identities, allegiances, and practices
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2020
Beyond Posthumanism
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities
Mathäs, A.
Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the importance of the humanities’ original mission of establishing a universal ethics by contextualizing disciplinary knowledge and making human experiences, bodily sensations, and emotions comprehensible through literary imagination.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published January 2020
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950
Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies
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Published October 2019
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies
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Published May 2019
Gustav Stresemann
The Crossover Artist
Pohl, K. H.
Gustav Stresemann has become a steadfast icon and key figure in understanding contemporary German and European history. Renowned historian Karl Heinrich Pohl draws on new archival material and extensive research to supplement our previous knowledge of Stresmann’s life and work.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present History (General)
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Published March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2018
Explorations and Entanglements
Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I
Berghoff, H., Biess, F., & Strasser, U. (eds)
Explorations and Entanglements reconstructs the German elements in the overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits of the “Pacific Worlds.” It concentrates on the pre-1914 period and encompasses scientific, cultural, religious and commercial exchanges. It opens a gate to a fascinating and hitherto much neglected arena of transnational encounters.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Colonial History
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Published June 2017
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Lässig, S. & Rürup, M. (eds)
This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history, working from an expansive concept of “the spatial” to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them, and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2015
Fellow Tribesmen
The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
Usbeck, F.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 2015
Germany and 'The West'
The History of a Modern Concept
Bavaj, R. & Steber, M. (eds)
In the nineteenth century “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2014
Clausewitz in His Time
Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War
Paret, P.
Anything but a detached theorist, Clausewitz was as fully engaged in the intellectual and cultural currents of his time as in its political and military conflicts. The essays in this volume follow his career in a complex military society, together with that of other students of war, both friends and rivals, providing a broad perspective that leads to significant documents so far unknown or ignored.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2014
The Challenges of Globalization
Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914
Torp, C.
In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2014
What Is History For?
Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of Historiography
Assis, A. A.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2013
Trieglaff
Balancing Church and Politics in a Pomeranian World, 1807-1948
Thadden, R. von
“The story [the author] tells is rich and fascinating…[He] traces very effectively the economic evolution of Junker agriculture across the generations…I learned a lot from the book.” · Jonathan Steinberg, author of Bismarck. A Life
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2013
German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Brose, E.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published August 2013
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Klautke, E.
“This is a very careful and meticulous study of the history of a forgotten science, namely Völkerpsychologie, a scholarly attempt to study the psychological structure of nations. We can now understand not just its complex origins reaching back to the German intellectual history of the early 19th century, but also the intellectual intricacies in the works of its main protagonists.” · Uffa Jensen, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published July 2013
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History
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Published March 2013
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Americans at German Universities, 1776-1914
Werner, A.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 18th/19th Century History (General)
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Published September 2012
Women of Two Countries
German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890
Bank, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2011
Imperial Germany Revisited
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Müller, S. O. & Torp, C. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2009
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Stark, G. D.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published September 2008
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884
Fitzpatrick, M. P.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2007
Pious Pursuits
German Moravians in the Atlantic World
Gillespie, M., & Beachy, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Vyleta, D.M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published January 2006
A Stranger in Paris
Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2005
Imperial Germany 1871-1918
Economy, Society, Culture and Politics
Berghahn, V. R.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2004
The German Economy During the Nineteenth Century
Pierenkemper, T. & Tilly, R.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published May 2003
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies
German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Eley, G. & Retallack, J. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published April 2001
Public Law in Germany, 1800-1914
Stolleis, M.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2001
Literature, the 'Volk' & the Revolution in Mid-19th Century Germany
Perraudin, M.
Subjects: Literary Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2001
Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940
The Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees and Illegal Aliens
Caestecker, F.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2000
The Great Train Race
Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry, 1815-1914
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies
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Published August 2000
Citizens and Aliens
Foreigners and the Law in Britain and German States 1789-1870
Fahrmeir, A.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2000
Productive Men and Reproductive Women
The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment
Gray, M.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 1999
Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany
Kocka, J.
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century Sociology
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Published January 1998
Towards Emancipation
German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Diethe, C.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 1998
A Year of Revolutions
Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848
Lewis, H. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published November 1995
Japan and Germany in the Modern World
Martin, B.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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