Gary D. Stark is currently Professor of History and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Previously, he was Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas (1994-1998) and Assistant and Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington (1975-1994), where he also held decanal positions. He is the author of Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany 1890-1933 (University of North Carolina Press) and of numerous articles on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German cultural history. He co-edited with Beke K. Lackner, Essays on Culture and Society in Modern Germany (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1982).

• List of illustrations List of tables and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations used in notes Introduction: Censorship, society, and literary life in imperial Germany Chapter 1. The law Chapter 2. The censors Chapter 3. Defending the political order Chapter 4. Defending the social order Chapter 5. Defending the religious order Chapter 6. Defending the moral order Chapter 7. The censored: Authors' responses to censorship Conclusion Bibliography Index

"There has long been a need for a comprehensive, reliable English-language account of censorship in Imperial Germany. This task has now been accomplished in this superbly researched and spritely written volume, which synthesizes the fruits of decades of research in numerous German archives and comprehensive reading of German and other secondary sources." * Robert Justin Goldstein, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Oakland University and Research Associate at the Center for Russian & E. European Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. This is a smart, shrewd, well-observed study of censorship in Imperial Germany that illuminates broad aspects of German society and its political and religious divisions. A very deft, intelligent analysis.A" * Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois - a comprehensive survey of censorship of literature and the stage spanning the years 1871 to 1918. It is truly a scholarly 'life's work,' and there is no volume like it, even in the German language. Banned in Berlin is the product of prodigious research: not only does it cover the relevant printed sources, but it draws upon a wealth of unpublished materials from numerous archives scattered across Germany.A" * Peter Jelavich, Johns Hopkins University

Gary D. Stark is currently Professor of History and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Previously, he was Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas (1994-1998) and Assistant and Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington (1975-1994), where he also held decanal positions. He is the author of Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany 1890-1933 (University of North Carolina Press) and of numerous articles on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German cultural history. He co-edited with Beke K. Lackner, Essays on Culture and Society in Modern Germany (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1982).

• List of illustrations List of tables and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations used in notes Introduction: Censorship, society, and literary life in imperial Germany Chapter 1. The law Chapter 2. The censors Chapter 3. Defending the political order Chapter 4. Defending the social order Chapter 5. Defending the religious order Chapter 6. Defending the moral order Chapter 7. The censored: Authors' responses to censorship Conclusion Bibliography Index

"There has long been a need for a comprehensive, reliable English-language account of censorship in Imperial Germany. This task has now been accomplished in this superbly researched and spritely written volume, which synthesizes the fruits of decades of research in numerous German archives and comprehensive reading of German and other secondary sources." * Robert Justin Goldstein, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Oakland University and Research Associate at the Center for Russian & E. European Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. This is a smart, shrewd, well-observed study of censorship in Imperial Germany that illuminates broad aspects of German society and its political and religious divisions. A very deft, intelligent analysis.A" * Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois - a comprehensive survey of censorship of literature and the stage spanning the years 1871 to 1918. It is truly a scholarly 'life's work,' and there is no volume like it, even in the German language. Banned in Berlin is the product of prodigious research: not only does it cover the relevant printed sources, but it draws upon a wealth of unpublished materials from numerous archives scattered across Germany.A" * Peter Jelavich, Johns Hopkins University

Gary D. Stark is currently Professor of History and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Previously, he was Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas (1994-1998) and Assistant and Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington (1975-1994), where he also held decanal positions. He is the author of Entrepreneurs of Ideology: Neoconservative Publishers in Germany 1890-1933 (University of North Carolina Press) and of numerous articles on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German cultural history. He co-edited with Beke K. Lackner, Essays on Culture and Society in Modern Germany (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1982).

• List of illustrations List of tables and figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations used in notes Introduction: Censorship, society, and literary life in imperial Germany Chapter 1. The law Chapter 2. The censors Chapter 3. Defending the political order Chapter 4. Defending the social order Chapter 5. Defending the religious order Chapter 6. Defending the moral order Chapter 7. The censored: Authors' responses to censorship Conclusion Bibliography Index

"There has long been a need for a comprehensive, reliable English-language account of censorship in Imperial Germany. This task has now been accomplished in this superbly researched and spritely written volume, which synthesizes the fruits of decades of research in numerous German archives and comprehensive reading of German and other secondary sources." * Robert Justin Goldstein, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Oakland University and Research Associate at the Center for Russian & E. European Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. This is a smart, shrewd, well-observed study of censorship in Imperial Germany that illuminates broad aspects of German society and its political and religious divisions. A very deft, intelligent analysis.A" * Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois - a comprehensive survey of censorship of literature and the stage spanning the years 1871 to 1918. It is truly a scholarly 'life's work,' and there is no volume like it, even in the German language. Banned in Berlin is the product of prodigious research: not only does it cover the relevant printed sources, but it draws upon a wealth of unpublished materials from numerous archives scattered across Germany.A" * Peter Jelavich, Johns Hopkins University