• 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