GERM 300 Introduction to German Studies: Getting Started

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture offers a wide-ranging and authoritative account of Germany in the 21st century. It gathers the expertise of internationally leading scholars of German culture, politics, and society to explore and explain - historical pathways to contemporary Germany - the current 'Berlin Republic' - society and diversity - Germany and Europe - Germany and the world. This is an essential resource for students, researchers, and all those looking to understand contemporary German politics and culture.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History is a multi-author survey of German history that features syntheses of major topics by an international team of scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this text places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics.

This chapters is designed to provide a guide to the study of the impact of the classics on postclassical culture, broadly defined.

Encyclopedia of German Literature includes a large number of entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition.