Smith, H: Oxford Handbook of Modern German History

1. Introduction ; PART I: HISTORY ; 2. The Origins of Modern Germany ; 3. Senses of Place ; 4. Women and Men: 1760-1960 ; PART II: STATES, PEOPLE AND NATION, 1760-1860 ; 5. International Conflict, War, and the Making of Modern Germany, 1740-1815 ; 6. Cosmopolitanism and the German Enlightenment ; 7. The Atlantic Revolutions in the German Lands, 1776-1849 ; 8. The End of the Economic Old Order: The Great Transition, 1750-1860 ; 9. Escaping Malthus: Population Explosion and Human Movement, 1760-1884 ; 10. Protestants, Catholics, and Jews: Enlightenment, Emancipation, New Forms of Piety ; 11. The Formation of German Nationalism, 1740-1850 ; 12. German Literature and Thought from 1810 to1890 ; PART III: GERMANY: THE NATION STATE ; 13. Nation State, Conflict Resolution, and Culture War, 1850-1878 ; 14. Authoritarian State, Dynamic Society, Failed Imperialist Power, 1878-1914 ; 15. The Great Transformation: German Economy and Society, 1850-1914 ; 16. Race and World Politics: Germany in the Age of Imperialism, 1878-1914 ; 17. Germany 1914-1918. Total War as a Catalyst of Change ; 18. The German National Economy in an Era of Crisis and War, 1917-1945 ; 19. Democracy and Dictatorship ; 20. Piety, Power and Powerlessness: Religion and Religious Groups in Germany, 1870-1945 ; 21. The Place of German Modernism ; 22. Nationalism in the Era of the Nation State, 1870-1945 ; 23. Todesraum: War, Peace, and the Experience of Mass Death, 1914-1945 ; 24. The Three Horsemen of the Holocaust: Antisemitism, East European Empire, Aryan Folk Community ; 25. The Uprooted: Expulsion, Exile, Flight, Forced Labor, Expulsion, 1880-1948 ; PART IV: GERMANY 1945-1989 ; 26. The Occupation of Germany, a Rubble Society ; 27. Democracy and Dictatorship in the Cold War: the Two Germanies, 1949-1961 ; 28. Generations: The Revolution of the 1960s ; 29. Industrialization, Mass Consumption, Postindustrial Society ; 30. Religion and the Search for Meaning, 1945-1990 ; 31. Culture in the Shadow of Trauma? ;

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.

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