The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic

Nadine Rossol is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex. She is currently Deputy Dean of Partnerships, and has held fellowships at the University of Limerick and the Free University Berlin.Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany History at the University of Sheffield. He has held fellowships and visiting professorships at the University of Oslo, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, and the University of Tübingen.

• 1: Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann: Introduction Part I: Key Events and Political Developments 2: Christopher Dillon: The German Revolution of 1918/19 3: Martin H. Geyer: The Period of Inflation, 1919-1923 4: Matthew Stibbe: Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924-1930 5: Larry Eugene Jones: From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930-33 Part II: Polity, Politics, and Policies 6: Peter C. Caldwell: The Weimar Constitution 7: Erin Hochman: Nationalism and Nationhood 8: Thomas Mergel: Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy 9: Siegfried Weichlein: Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces 10: Benjamin Ziemann: The Reichswehr and Armament Policies 11: Jonathan Wright: Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State 12: Nadine Rossol: Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities 13: Karl-Christian Führer: Social Policy in the Weimar Republic Part III: Parties and their Constituencies 14: Philipp Müller: Liberalism 15: Joachim C. Häberlen: Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement 16: Shelley Baranowski: The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right 17: Daniel Siemens: National Socialism 18: Susanne Wein and Martin Ulmer: Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic Part IV: Economy and Society 19: Jan-Otmar Hesse and Christian Marx: The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services 20: Moritz Föllmer: The Middle Classes 21: Pamela Swett: The Industrial Working Class 22: Benjamin Ziemann: Agriculture and Rural Society 23: Ute Planert: Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction 24: Mary Nolan: Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union 25: Sharon Gillerman: German Jews in the Weimar Republic 26: Barbara Stambolis: Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, Developments Part V: Culture 27: Jochen Hung: Mass Culture 28: Helmuth Kiesel: German Literature 1918-1933 29: Beate Störtkuhl: Architecture, Town Planning and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions 30: Todd Weir and Udi Greenberg: Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics 31: Lutz Raphael: The Humanities and Social Sciences 32: Kerry Wallach: Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities 33: Claudia Siebrecht: The Presence of the First World War in Weimar Culture Index

If one has access to only a single volume on the history of the Weimar Republic, this should be it.