 | Imperial Germany, 1867-1918: Politics, Culture and Society in an Authoritarian State by Wolfgang J Mommsen
Buy new: £16.59 / Used from: £8.78 One of the best overviews from the liberal tradition.
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 | History of Germany, 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) by David Blackbourn
Buy new: £18.37 / Used from: £15.66 Putting the Kaiserreich in context.
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 | Imperial Germany, 1871-1914: Economy, Society, Culture and Politics by Volker R. Berghahn
Buy used from: £38.99 Another excellent synthesis.
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 | The German Empire, 1871-1918 by Hans-Ulrich Wehler
Buy new: £21.34 / Used from: £4.54 The main exponent of the Sonderweg thesis.
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 | Germany's Aims in the First World War by Fritz Fischer
Translation of Griff nach der Weltmacht, the infamous Fischer thesis.
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| Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany
Buy used from: £19.99 Sadly difficult to get hold of.
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 | The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany by David Blackbourn
Buy new: £30.40 / Used from: £14.48 A stimulating collection of essays.
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 | Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Buy used from: £15.15 Exploring Wilhelmine society, and its repressive and progressive tendencies.
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| We Men Who Feel Most German: Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886-1914 by Roger Chickering
An important study of the elements of society that tend towards the fascist future.
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 | The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany by John C.G. Rohl
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £14.00 From the author of the 'personal rule' thesis.
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 | German Social Democracy 1905-1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Harvard Historical Studies) by CE Schorske
Buy new: £23.70 / Used from: £1.91 Absolutely classic study of the SPD, its growth and its fragmentation.
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| Bernstein to Brandt: Short History of German Social Democracy
Buy used from: £2.00 Collection of essays extending beyond the period, including important remarks on Bernstein's revisionism.
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 | Theories of Imperialism by Mommsen
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £19.52 Excellent study of theories of Imperialism, with some mention of the German example.
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 | Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 (Penguin history) by Richard J. Evans
Buy used from: £5.98 Far broader than the title suggests, a rich study of a major city.
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