Origins of modern Germany / Robert von Friedeburg -- Senses of place / Celia Applegate -- Women and men : 1760-1960 / Ann Goldberg -- International conflict, war, and the making of modern Germany, 1740-1815 / Ute Planert -- Cosmopolitanism and the German enlightenment / Franz Leander Fillafer and Jürgen Osterhammel -- The Atlantic revolutions in the German lands, 1776-1849 / Jonathan Sperber -- The end of the economic old order : the great transition, 1750-1860 / James M. Brophy -- Escaping Malthus : population explosion and human movement, 1760-1884 / Ernest Benz -- Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, 1760-1871 : enlightenment, emancipation, new forms of piety / George S. Williamson -- The formation of German nationalism, 1740-1850 / Christian Jansen -- German literature and thought from 1810-1890 / Ritchie Robertson -- Nation state, conflict resolution, and culture war, 1850-1878 / Siegfried Weichlein -- Authoritarian state, dynamic society, failed imperialist power, 1878-1914 / Helmut Walser Smith -- The great transformation : German economy and society, 1850-1914 / Cornelius Torp -- Race and world politics : Germany in the age of imperialism, 1878-1914 / Andrew Zimmerman -- Germany 1914-1918 : total war as a catalyst of change / Benjamin Ziemann -- The German national economy in an era of crisis and war, 1917-1945 / Adam Tooze -- Dictatorship and democracy, 1918-1939 / Thomas Mergel -- Piety, power, and powerlessness : religion and religious groups in Germany, 1870-1945 / Rebekka Habermas -- The place of German modernism / Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner -- Nationalism in the era of the nation state, 1870-1945 / Pieter M. Judson -- Todesraum : war, peace, and the experience of mass death, 1914-1945 / Thomas Kühne -- The three horseman of the Holocaust : anti-Semitism, East European empire, Aryan folk community / William W. Hagen -- On the move : mobility, migration, and nation, 1880-1948 / Sebastian Conrad and Philipp Ther -- Germany is no more : defeat, occupation, and the postwar order / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann -- Democracy and dictatorship in the Cold War : the two Germanies, 1949-1961 / Andrew I. Port -- Generations : the "revolutions" of the 1960s / Uta G. Poiger -- Industrialization, mass consumption, post-industrial society / Donna Harsch -- Religion and the search for meaning, 1945-1990 / Benjamin Ziemann -- Culture in the shadow of trauma? / Lutz Koepnick -- The two German states in the international world / Andreas W. Daum -- Annus mirabilis : 1989 and German unification / David F. Patton -- Germany and European integration since 1945 / Kiran Klaus Patel -- Toward A multicultural society? / William A. Barbieri, Jr.