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Forthcoming July 2026 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 2026
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 September 2025
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 September 2025
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 December 2025
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 June 2025
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 June 2024
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 August 2019
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 June 2017
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 July 2016
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 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 June 2016
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 2016
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 December 2012
Imperial Germany Revisited
Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Müller, S. O. & Torp, C. (eds)
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published January 2012
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 December 2011
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 October 2004
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 March 2006
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 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 December 2005
Japan and Germany in the Modern World
Martin, B.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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