He is the author of The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemburg, Imperial Germany and National Memory, 1871-1918 (1997), which won the Charles Smith Book Prize of the European section of the Southern Historical Association. He has also written numerous articles and has edited three works, including “Viewed from the Locality: the Local, National, and Global,” co-edited with Ajay Skaria, for a special issue of National Identity (March 2002). Professor Confino is currently working on a book entitled Pleasures in Germany: A Study of Traveling in Modern Culture, 1933-1989.