The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History Helmut Walser Smith
Oxford University Press , Sep 29, 2011 - 863 pages This is the
first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that
features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an
international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic,
economic, and political history, this Handbook places German
history in a denser transnational context than any other general
history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the
unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically
affected the development of German nationalism and the structure
of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students
beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge
chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well
as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and
the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.' Covering
the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook
represents a remarkable achiev