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Overview: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany, 1866-1890
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Overview: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany, 1866-1890   |   1. Demographic and Economic Development   |   2. Society   |   3. Culture   |   4. Religion, Education, Social Welfare   |   5. Politics I: Forging an Empire   |   6. Military and International Relations   |   7. Politics II: Parties and Political Mobilization

Further Reading: Historical Surveys, Interpretive Overviews, Biographies

David Blackbourn, History of Germany, 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century, 2nd ed., London, 2003 (orig. 1997).

Roger Chickering, ed., Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion, Westport, Conn., 1996.

Ewald Frie, Das Deutsche Kaiserreich, Darmstadt, 2004.

Lothar Gall, Bismarck: The White Revolutionary, 2 vols., Boston, 1986 (orig. German ed. 1980).

Dieter Hertz-Eichenrode, Deutsche Geschichte 1871-1890, Stuttgart, 1992.

Matthew Jefferies, Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918, Oxford, forthcoming 2007.

Katharine Anne Lerman, Bismarck, Harlow, 2004.

Wilfried Loth, Das Kaiserreich. Obrigkeitsstaat und politische Mobilisierung, Munich, 1996.

Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Imperial Germany 1867-1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State, London and New York, 1995; orig. German ed. as Der autoritäre Nationalstaat. Verfassung, Gesellschaft und Kultur des deutschen Kaiserreichs, Frankfurt a.M., 1990.

Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Das Ringen um den nationalen Staat, pt. 1, Die Gründung und der innere Ausbau des Deutschen Reiches unter Otto von Bismarck 1850 bis 1890, Berlin, 1993.

Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp, eds., Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse. Probleme und Perspektiven, forthcoming 2008.


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