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Library Guides/ Modern and Contemporary History 1800 AD - Present

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On this page you find a selection of the key bibliographies, handbooks and reference works on the history of Germany.

Handbooks

Boterman, Frits. Moderne geschiedenis van Duitsland : 1800-heden. Amsterdam, 2005.

Boterman, Frits. Cultuur als macht. Cultuurgeschiedenis van Duitsland 1800-heden. Utrecht, 2013

Caldwell, Peter C, and Karrin Hanshew. Germany Since 1945 : Politics, Culture, and Society. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
ISBN: 9781474262415
Fulbrook, Mary. A history of Germany, 1918-2014 : the divided nation. Chichester, 2015.
Gebhardt, Bruno. Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte München, 2001-2004.
Smith, Helmut Walser. The Oxford handbook of modern German history. Oxford, 2011.
ISBN: 9780199237395
Orlow, Dietrich. A History of Modern Germany : 1871 to Present. 7th ed. Florence: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
ISBN: 9780205214433

Key bibliographies

Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

More bibliographic resources

Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie This link opens in a new window
Federated search in the catalogs of 12 German regional online bibliographies.

Reference

Buse, Dieter K. en Juergen C. Doerr. Modern Germany : an encyclopedia of history, people, and culture, 1871-1990. New York, 1998. This link opens in a new window
Gall, Lothar en Peter Blickle . [e.a.]. Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte. Gall, Lothar, Peter Blickle . [e.a.]. Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte. München, 1988- . This link opens in a new window
A historical dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933. This link opens in a new window

Biographical Reference

Deutsche Biographie This link opens in a new window

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