Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*

Helmut Walser Smith's Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (OHMGH) is a very rich and up-to-date reference work, written by thirty-five carefully selected experts in the field. It will be invaluable not only for historians but also for scholars and teachers in Cultural Studies and literature
*Volker R. Berghahn, German Studies Review*