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Routledge Library Editions: German History


About the Series

Originally published between 1929 and 1991 the volumes in this set:

  • Offer a comprehensive and challenging interpretation of the German past
  • Assess Bismarck’s contribution to the German Empire and his legacy for modern Germany
  • Examine the psyche of the Germans and discuss the psychological impact of the Second World War on the Germans
  • Review critically not only the rise and rule of National Socialism, but also the strength of authoritarianism and militarism and the weakness of democracy in 19th Century Germany
  • Examine the inter-relationships between social and economic change on the one hand, and political developments on the other.
  • Analyse the significance of the Zollverein on economic growth
  • Discuss authority and the law in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.
  • Analyse the contribution of German historians to 20th Century historiography
  • Chart key events in British – German trade rivalry
  • Include archival material from both the former East and West Germany.

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The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933 From Ghetto to Government

The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933: From Ghetto to Government

1st Edition

By W. L. Guttsman
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes...

The German Working Class 1888 - 1933 The Politics of Everyday Life

The German Working Class 1888 - 1933: The Politics of Everyday Life

1st Edition

Edited By Richard J. Evans
July 01, 2021

When it was originally published in 1982, this book presented pioneering new research into the everyday life of the German working class in the crucial decades between the accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Nazi seizure of power. The authors document working-class attitudes to bourgeois ...

The Hohenzollerns

The Hohenzollerns

1st Edition

By Herbert Eulenberg
July 01, 2021

Originally published in English in 1929, this book provides a history of the Hohenzollerns from the fifteenth century Frederick to Wilhelm III. Each chapter is devoted to the principal members of the house of Hohenzollern and presented in the form of short, biographical sketches, designed to ...

The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862-1914

The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862-1914

1st Edition

By I. N. Lambi
July 01, 2021

When originally published in 1984, and based on archival research, this book was the first fully documented discussion of German naval strategy and planning from 1862-1914 against France, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The book is a complete study of the relationship of the ...

The Nuremberg Documents Some Aspects of German War Policy 1939-45

The Nuremberg Documents: Some Aspects of German War Policy 1939-45

1st Edition

By Peter de Mendelssohn
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1946, this volume, based on some of the evidence taken from captured German files and archives, discusses many questions concerning German policy and diplomatic manoeuvre during the Second World War. It offers a fascinating insight into the rise and fall of the Nazi state ...

The Political Economy of Germany, 1815-1914

The Political Economy of Germany, 1815-1914

1st Edition

By Martin Kitchen
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1978, this book goes beyond conventional studies of economic history to discuss wider political and social questions pertinent to the development of the German political economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The interaction between economic development and ...

The Political Re-Education of Germany and her Allies After World War II

The Political Re-Education of Germany and her Allies: After World War II

1st Edition

Edited By Nicholas Pronay, Keith Wilson
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of political re-education from its origins to 1951. ‘Political re-education’ was the British alternative to the ideas put forward by the USA and the USSR in the...

The Silent Dictatorship The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918

The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918

1st Edition

By Martin Kitchen
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1976 and based upon the extensive use of original archival material, this book provides a detailed account of the 2 years in which the German army enjoyed unprecedented power and influence. The rise of Hindenburg and Ludendorff is seen against the background of the failure ...

The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century

The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century

1st Edition

By Adrien Fauchier-Magnan
July 01, 2021

First published in English in 1958, this book charts the history of the small states which emerged in Germany from the chaos of the Thirty Years War. A period which has been neglected by English historians, this book covers both the German principalities generally and specifically a study of The ...

The Tragedy of Nazi Germany

The Tragedy of Nazi Germany

1st Edition

By Peter Phillips
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the many factors which atomised German society from 1870 onwards and thus assisted Nazi evil, and it shows that Hitler and Nazism were mere phenomena of a mass age. The author wrote with the twin qualifications as historian and survivor of the camps...

We Men Who Feel Most German A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914

We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914

1st Edition

By Roger Chickering
July 01, 2021

Originally published in 1984 this volume presents the first systematic analysis of the cultural sources of the Pan German League’s appeal and influence in Imperial Germany. It focuses on the symbolic dimensions of the League’s literature and activities, in order to explain the attraction of the ...

Germany A Companion to German Studies

Germany: A Companion to German Studies

1st Edition

By Jethro Bithell
July 12, 2019

The 5th edition of this classic book was originally published in 1955, and includes contributions from well-known authors on history, politics, literature, art, architecture and philosophy. The ideas are discussed and interpreted in the context of the development of European and global intellectual...

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