This history of German-speaking central Europe presents the different eras of German history as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality.

The first scholarly account of massive and fateful pogrom waves, interpreted through the lens of folk culture and social psychology.

An innovative exploration of German memory, national identity, and modernity embodied in the public spaces of the new capital.

An intellectual tour of present-day Berlin explores its vibrant, heterogeneous culture and includes coverage of its thriving artistic communities, rapidly evolving metropolis ...

States of Division analyses the division of Germany and the development of the Iron Curtain during the four and a half decades of the Cold War. The centerpiece of this global ...

Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One ...

The Iron Curtain did not exist. Instead, it comprised multiple regional segments, many in the grip of divergent historical and cultural forces for decades, if not centuries ...

"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian Kershaw Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the ...

Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic ...

Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany’s ...