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26260. Berghahn, Volker R.. Modern Germany : society, economy, and politics in the twentieth century. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982, xi, 314pp., sewn PAPERBACK, good used copy but foxing on foredges and a few minor ink marks, $12
Society, economy, domestic politics, foreign policy. Structural approach. ISBN 0521298598


11728. Dickinson, Robert E.. Germany. A general and regional geography. New York: Dutton, 1953, stated First Edition, xx, 700pp. illus., maps. 23 cm., good blue cloth, cover faded, $25
Dutton advanced geographies.


33462. Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990. The Germans : power struggles and the development of habitus in the ninetheenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Michael Schröter, translated from the German and with a preface by Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell. New York : Columbia University Press, 1996, xvi, 494pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $15
. ISBN 0231105630


25209. Eulenberg, Herbert, 1876-1949. Die Hohenzollern. Berlin, B. Cassirer, 1928, Erstes bis Fünftes Tausend, 451pp., very good blue cloth but with some heavy foxing on foredges and endpapers, $25
.


19312. Fischer, Heinz, 1930-. Deutsche Kultur. Eine Einführung. Hrsg. von Heinz Fischer. [Berlin] E. Schmidt [1973], 170pp. illus. 21 cm, very good sewn paper wraps (sewn paperback), $10
. ISBN 3503007520


25260. Flenley, Ralph, 1886-1969. Modern German history. London, Dent; New York, Dutton, 1968, 4th revised edition, xii, 503pp., good dust-jacket, worn at top edge, very good blue cloth, $20
With two additional chapters (XIII and XIV) covering the war of 1939-45 and the postwar years, by Robert Spencer. First published in 1953: both Flenley and Spencer were University of Toronto historians.


32954. Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde, Hrsg.. Geschichte des Rheinlandes von der ältesten Zeit bis zur Gegenwart. Erster Band: Politische Geschichte. Essen an der Ruhr, G. D. Baedeker Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1922, 1922, xii, 435pp., fair only, used and worn white half-cloth, cover worn, a few pencil marks, upper corner of a few pages wrinkled, previous owner's name, $19
ONLY VOLUME ONE. Contributors include: J. Hansen, F. Koepp, W. Levison, W. Platzhoff. INCLUDES substantial section by Wilhelm Levison, Vom Ende der Römerherrschaft bis zum Interregnum (450-1250) (pp. 45-168).


30611. Holborn, Hajo, 1902-1969. A history of modern Germany. 1648-1840. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982, xii, 531, xxvi -, PAPERBACK, very good clean copy BUT upper rear corner top of pages and of rear cover with fold mark or bumped, $9
First published in 1964 as the middle volume of Holborn's three part history of Germany. ISBN 0691007969


25688. Krauss, Alfred, 1862-1938. Der Irrgang der deutschen Königspolitik. Die Lehren der Vergangenheit für Gegenwart und Zukunft. München, J.F. Lehmann, 1927, 405pp., very good red cloth but some foxing, covers warped, $20
Previous owner has noted in pencil on endpaper: "An incredibly repetitious, trite series of greater German patriotic aspirations." Contents are a survey history of Germany from 919 to the present (1927).


6627. Krockow, Christian von, 1927-2002. Die Deutschen in ihrem Jahrhundert 1890-1990. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1994, Gekürzte Ausgabe (without footnotes), 701pp., PAPERBACK, large-print edition, very good, slight wear, $6
. ISBN 3499331039


Digitale Bibliothek 151. Leuschner, Joachim, Hrsg.. Deutsche Geschichte - cd-rom. Berlin: DirectMedia, 2007, , cd-rom for pc or mac, texts in German, $39
Digitale Bibliothek 151.Out of print in this form / beim Verlag vergriffen. Book edition was published: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 1982–2003. Here the entire series, over 5000 pages, on one cd-rom: Josef Fleckenstein: Grundlagen und Beginn der deutschen Geschichte - Horst Fuhrmann: Deutsche Geschichte im hohen Mittelalter - Joachim Leuschner: Deutschland im späten Mittelalter - Bernd Moeller: Deutschland im Zeitalter der Reformation - Martin Heckel: Deutschland im konfessionellen Zeitalter - Rudolf Vierhaus: Deutschland im Zeitalter des Absolutismus (1648–1763) - Karl Otmar von Aretin: Vom Deutschen Reich zum Deutschen Bund - Reinhard Rürup: Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert (1815–1871) - Hans-Ulrich Wehler: Das Deutsche Kaiserreich (1871–1918) - Gerhard Schulz: Deutschland seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg (1918–1945). ISBN 3898535517


20042. Lexikon-Institut Bertelsmann, Hrsg.. Deutsche Geschichte. Ein Überblick. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 1989, 63pp., very good small stapled paper wraps, many color illustrations, $6
Short, colorful introduction with maps, surveying German history up to 1989. Of historical interest, stopping just before the unification. ISBN 357047768


19172. Mönch, Walter, 1905-. Deutsche Kultur von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart. Ereignisse, Gestalten, Strömungen. München, Hueber, 1962, 536, [1]pp. illus. (1 col.) ports., facsims. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket with a few minor chips, good orange cloth, some foxing, previous owner's name, $8
.


4504. Oliveira, A. Ramos, 1907-. A People's History of Germany. London: Victor Gollancz, 1942, Left Book Club Edition, not for sale to the public, 228pp., very good red boards, bookseller's invoice laid in, hardcover, $14
.


19317. Passant, Ernest J.. A short history of Germany, 1815-1945. Economic sections by W. O. Henderson, and with contributions by C. J. Child and D. C. Watt. Cambridge, Eng.: University Press, 1962, later printing, 255pp. illus. 21 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, fold mark on front cover, slight wear, previous owner's name, $6
.


25373. Pinson, Koppel S., 1904-1961. Modern Germany. Its history and civilization. Chapter 23 by Klaus Epstein. New York, Macmillan, 1967, 4th printing of the Second Edition, xv, 682pp., good red cloth but with heavy ink underlining in 20 pages of chapter on Weimar Assembly, lesser marks on a few pages, good usable reading copy otherwise, $7
.


16136. Pollock, James K. / Thomas, Homer. Germany in Power and Eclipse. The Background of German Development. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1952, 661pp., very good large red cloth, but ex-library copy with pocket, stamp on front endpaper, call number in white ink on spine which is a bit faded, $19
Massive historical and regional introduction to Germany by political scientists with influence as government advisors: Pollock "served as an election official in the Saar Plebescite in 1935" and as advisor to numerous commissions and agencies thereafter, including the High Commissioner in Germany and the Hoover Commission.


16120. Ryder, A. J.. Twentieth-Century Germany. From Bismarck to Brandt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, 656pp., worn dust-jacket, very good large red cloth, slight cover wear, previous owner's inscription, $15
Author spent postwar years in the "Education branch of the British control commission in Germany, and was later engaged in cultural relations work there.".


7077. Schnabel, Franz, 1887-1966. Deutsche Geschichte im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1947-1951, 1947, later editions, , orange cloth, except vol. I which is orange half-cloth, four volumes, dust-jackets on vols. 2, 3, 4, Vol. I INSCRIBED by Edward Shils to Thomas [Donohoe], vol. II signed by Shils. $85
Complete in 4-volumes!.


26801. Treitschke, Heinrich von, 1834-1896. Deutsche Geschichte im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Veit Valentin. Berlin: Erich Reiss Verlag, no date, around 1927, 1927, Erstes bis Fünftes Tausend, xx, 447, 634pp., two volumes, very good brown cloth, but front hinge of volume one a bit wobbly, previous owner's name: Erhard Jaeger, $45
Valentin's substantial and highly critical foreword is probably more interesting today than Treitschke's bestseller, originally published to great success in five volumes: "es ist heute nötig, den unsterblichen Treitschke vom sterblichen zu trennen." The publication of Treitschke by this publisher and this editor in the late 1920s is itself an intriguing phenomenon.


18329. Treitschke, Heinrich von, 1834-1896. Bilder aus der deutschen Geschichte. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1916-1917, 6te Auflage, 270, 370pp., good but worn paper-covered boards, two volumes, boards warped, paper well-preserved, top of spine of volume 1 chipped and reglued, $25
CONTENTS: BAND I: Nationale Erstarkung und Erhebung - Der Anfang des Befreiungskrieges - Die Schlacht bei Belle-Alliance - Die konstitutionelle Bewegung in Norddeutschland - Friedrich Wilhelm IV - Die soziale Bewegung der 40er Jahre - Das Gefecht von Eckernförde - BAND II: Die goldenen Tage von Weimar - Literatur und Kunst im ersten Jahrzehnt des 19. Jahrhunderts - Dichtung und Kunst nach dem Befreiungskriege - Radikalismus und Judentum - Das souveräne Feuilleton - Berlin am Ausgang der Regierung Friedrich Wilhelms III - Die preussische Residenz während der Anfänge Friedrich Wilhelms IV - Poesie und Kunst der 40er Jahre.


26152. Treue, Wilhelm, 1909-1992. Kleine Kulturgeschichte des deutschen Alltags. Potsdam, Rütten & Loening, 1942, 353pp., very good paper-covered boards, red titles, slight wear, $14
.


19166. Valentin, Veit, 1885-1947. The German people, their history and civilization from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich. Translated by Olga Marx, edited by Dorothy Teall. New York, A. A. Knopf, 1952, 4th printing, 730pp., very good black cloth, some minor wear, some minor scattered pencil notations in text or margins, previous owner's name, $20
.


25111. Wachsmuth, Wilhelm, 1784-1866. Geschichte deutscher Nationalität. Braunschweig : C. A. Schwetschke, 1860, viii, 426, viii, 384pp., only two volumes bound in one, very good professional brown half-cloth binding, minor pencil notations or underlining on a few pages and on title page, some light foxing, $135
Erster Theil: Die Gesammtheit der deutschen Nation - Zweiter Theil (erste Hälfte): Die deutschen Volksstämme insbesondere. A THIRD VOLUME WAS PUBLISHED IN 1862, NOT PRESENT HERE. Prolific historian, professor in Kiel, Halle, and Leipzig (from 1825). Also wrote an english grammar, a theory of historical research and a number of european histories, and edited a humanistic journal (Athenäum, 1817-18).


35033. Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 1931-. Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Erster Band. Vom Feudalismus des alten Reiches bis zur defensiven Modernisierung der Reformära, 1700-1815. München : C. H. Beck, 2007, x, 676pp., good dust-jacket, light wear at bottom, very good red cloth, minor wear, $40
Photo of Wehler on rear jacket flap. ISBN 3406322611


33031. Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 1931-. Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Fünfter Band. Bundesrepublik und DDR, 1949-1990. München : C.H. Beck, 2008, xvii, 529pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $40
. ISBN 9783406521713


19324. Wildermuth, Rosemarie. Als das Gestern heute war: Erzählungen, Gedichte und Dokumente zu unserer Geschichte (1789-1949). Ausgewählt und erklärt von Rosemarie Wildermuth. München: Ellermann, 1977, Zweite Auflage, 327pp.: ill. 21 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, colorful illustrated design, clear plastic coating of cover is chipping away, $10
Ein Ellermann Lese-Buch. ISBN 377076157X