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: IntroductionPart I: Key Events and Political Developments2: Christopher Dillon: The German Revolution of 1918/193: Martin H. Geyer: The Period of Inflation, 1919-19234: Matthew Stibbe: Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924-19305: Larry Eugene Jones: From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930-33Part II: Polity, Politics, and Policies6: Peter C. Caldwell: The Weimar Constitution7: Erin Hochman: Nationalism and Nationhood8: Thomas Mergel: Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy9: Siegfried Weichlein: Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces10: Benjamin Ziemann: The Reichswehr and Armament Policies11: Jonathan Wright: Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State12: Nadine Rossol: Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities13: Karl-Christian Führer: Social Policy in the Weimar RepublicPart III: Parties and their Constituencies14: Philipp Müller: Liberalism15: Joachim C. Häberlen: Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement16: Shelley Baranowski: The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right17: Daniel Siemens: National Socialism18: Susanne Wein and Martin Ulmer: Antisemitism in the Weimar RepublicPart IV: Economy and Society19: Jan-Otmar Hesse and Christian Marx: The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services20: Moritz Föllmer: The Middle Classes21: Pamela Swett: The Industrial Working Class22: Benjamin Ziemann: Agriculture and Rural Society23: Ute Planert: Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction24: Mary Nolan: Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union25: Sharon Gillerman: German Jews in the Weimar Republic26: Barbara Stambolis: Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, DevelopmentsPart V: Culture27: Jochen Hung: Mass Culture28: Helmuth Kiesel: German Literature 1918-193329: Beate Störtkuhl: Architecture, Town Planning and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions30: Todd Weir and Udi Greenberg: Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics31: Lutz Raphael: The Humanities and Social Sciences32: Kerry Wallach: Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities33: Claudia Siebrecht: The Presence of the First World War in Weimar CultureIndex

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