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2015-2016Central EuropeEighteenth Century James Sheehan, “What is German History? Reflections on the Role of the Nation in German History & Historiography,” JMH 53 (March 1981): 1-23.Boyer, John. “Some Reflections on the Problem of Austria, Germany, and Mitteleuropa,” Central European History 22, no. 3/4 (Sept/Dec 1989): 301-315.Strauss, Gerald, “The Holy Roman Empire Revisited,” Central European History 11 (1978), 293-301.Walker, Mack. German Home Towns: Community, State, and General Estate, 1648-1871. 1971. Dubin, Lois. The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture. 2011. 1-40, 64-94 (intro, chapters 1 and 3)Katz, Jacob. Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation. 1770-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1973.Derek Edward Dawson Beales, Enlightenment and Reform in 18th-Century Europe, (Tauris, 2005). (Chapters 11 and 12)Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius, 3-49.*Larry Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford, 1994)Ezequiel Adamovsky, "Euro-Orientalism and the Making of the Concept of Eastern Europe in France, 1810–1880" The Journal of Modern History (Chicago), no. 77, September 2005, pp. 591–628.Nineteenth CenturyTimothy Blanning, The French Revolution in GermanyBrian Vick, The Congress of ViennaSchivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century. 1986.Bugge, Peter. “The Use of the Middle: Mitteleuropa vs. St?ední Evropa,” European Review of History 6 no. 1 (1999): 15-34.*Blackbourn, David, The Conquest of NaturePieter Judson, Exclusive RevolutionariesFrank, Alison. Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia, 2005.Blackbourn, David. Marpingen. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany from Clarendon (1995)Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley. The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany. 1984.Jelavich, Peter. “Anti-Semitism in Imperial Germany: Cultural Code or Pervasive Prejudice?,” The Jewish Quarterly Review 99, no. 4 (Fall 2009), 584-593.Anderson, Margaret. Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. 2000.Retallack, James. “Get out the Vote!” Elections without Democracy in Imperial Germany.” Bulletin of the GHI. Issue 51 (Fall 2012).Carl Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle ViennaNationalism Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. 1983.Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 1983.Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe. 1996.*Judson, Pieter. Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria, 2006.Zahra, Tara. Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948. 2008.King, Jeremy. “The Nationalization of East-Central Europe: Ethnicism, Ethnicity, and Beyond,” in Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848- Present eds. Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield (2001), 112-142Zahra, Tara. “Imagined Non-Communities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis,” Slavic Review 69 (Spring 2010), 93-119.Bjork, James. Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland, 1890-1922 (2008)Applegate, Celia. A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat. 1990.Cohen, Gary. “Nationalist Politics & the Dynamics of State & Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy.” Central European History 40. 241-278, 2007.Mark Jantzen, Mennonite German Soldiers, 2010.Istvan Deák, Beyond Nationalism: A Social & Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (NY, 1990)Colonialism and Imperialism Conrad, Sebastian. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany. Cambridge University Press. 2010.Kopp, Kristin. Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2012.Naranch, Bradley and Geoff Eley, eds. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham: Duke University Press. 2014.Conrad, Sebastian and Jürgen Osterhammel. Das Kaiserreich transnational: Deutschland in der Welt. 1871-1914. G?ttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 2004.Marchand, Suzanne. German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race & Scholarship. 2009.Frank, Alison. “The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century,” The American Historical Review 117, no. 2 (April 2012), 410-444.*Isabell Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004)World War IRachamimov, Alon “The Disruptive Comforts of Drag: (Trans)Gender Performances among Prisoners of War in Russia, 1914-1920,” AHR 111, no. 2 (April 2006): 362-382.Sammartino, Annemarie. The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2010.McMeekin, Sean. The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2012).*Maureen Healy, Vienna & the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War & Everyday Life in World War I (Cambridge, 2004), Introduction and Chapters 1, 3, 5Christopher Clark, The SleepwalkersJohn Deak, “The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War,” The Journal of Modern History 86, no. 2 (June 2014), 336-380.Fischer, Fritz. “Twenty-Five Years Later: Looking Back at the ‘Fischer Controversy’” Central European History 21 (Sept 1988) 207-23.Rozenblit, Marsha. Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I. 2001.InterwarMaier, Charles. Recasting Bourgeois Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).*Pedersen, Susan. The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)Fink, C. “Defender of Minorities: Germany in the League of Nations, 1926-1930,” Central European History (1972), pp 330-357Rabinbach, Anson. The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983). Tooze, J. Adam. Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).Fritzsche, Peter. “Did Weimar fail?,” Journal of Modern History, 68 (September 1996), pp. 629-66Maier, Charles. “Society as Factory,” in Charles Maier, In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Poltiical Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).Peukert, Detlev. The Weimar Republic (1991)Wasserman, Janek. Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 (Cornell, 2014)Nazism and World War II Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, 2000.Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. 2010.Tooze, Adam. Wages of Destruction. 2006. (see entry under Economic History)Haffner, Sebastian. Defying HitlerHeschel, Susannah. The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2008.Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland. 1992.*Case, Holly. Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II. 2009.Weindling, Paul. Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1880-1945. 2000.Aly, G?tz. Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State. New York: Metropolitan Books. 2007.Glowinski, Michal. The Black SeasonsMazower, Mark. Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Occupied Europe, 2009Berkhoff, Karel. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule, 2004.Gross, Jan. Neighbors. ................
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