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Besondere Forschungsgebiete:

• Social history of the GDR
• Historical Theory
• Comparative European history

Monographien in Auswahl:

• Piety and Politics: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in England, Württemberg and Prussia (1983)
• A Concise History of Germany (1990; 2nd edn 2004; numerous translations)
• A History of Germany 1918-2000: The Divided Nation (1991; 2nd edn. 2001)
• Interpretations of the Two Germanies 1945-1990 (1992, 2nd edn. 2000)
• Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-89 (1995)
• German National Identity after the Holocaust (1999)
• Historical Theory (2002).

Aufsätze und Beiträge in Auswahl:

• Max Weber's 'Interpretive Sociology': a comparison of conception and practice (British Journal of Sociology, 1978)
• Religion, revolution and absolutist rule in Germany and England (European Studies Review, 1982)
• The English revolution and the revisionist revolt (Social History, 1982)
• Legitimation crises and the early modern state: the politics of religious toleration, in Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe (ed. K. von Greyerz, 1984)
• (with T. Skocpol) Destined pathways: the historical sociology of Perry Anderson, in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (ed. T. Skocpol) (1984)
• The emergence of modernity: patterns and people in sociocultural history (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1985)
• The state and the transformation of political legitimacy in East and West Germany since 1945 (Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1987)
• Christopher Hill and historical sociology, in Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill (ed. G. Eley et al.) (1988)
• Protestantismus und der Staat in der DDR, in Deutschland '90: Ein Staat - zwei Gesellschaften (ed. A. Lüdtke, 1990)
• German historiography after 1945 reconsidered (GHIL Bulletin, 1991)
• Absolutism and education in 18th century Germany (The Historical Journal, 1991)
• The rise of Brandenburg-Prussia (Early Modern History Review, 1992)
• Herrschaft, Gehorsam und Verweigerung: Die DDR als Diktatur in J. Kocka (ed.), Die DDR als Geschichte (1994)
• Methodologische Überlegungen zu einer Gesellschaftsgeschichte der DDR, in R. Bessel and R. Jessen (eds.), Grenzen der Diktatur (1996)
• Aspects of Society and Identity in the New Germany in M. Mertes et al (eds), In Search of Germany (1996)
• Reckoning with the Past: Heroes, Victims and Villains in the History of the German Democratic Republic, in R. Alter & P. Monteath (eds.), Rewriting the German Past (1997)
• Myth- Making and National Identity: the Case of the GDR, in G. Hosking and G. Schöpflin (eds.), Myths and Nationhood (1997)
• The Limits of Totalitarianism: God, State and Society in the GDR (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1997)
• DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichtspolitik, in G. Iggers et al (eds.), Die DDR-Geschichtswissenschaft als Forschungsproblem (1998; HZ Beiheft 27)
• Aufarbeitung der DDR- Vergangenheit und 'innere Einheit' - ein Widerspruch? in C. Kleßmann and H. Misselwitz (eds.), Deutsche Vergangenheiten - eine gemeinsame Herausforderung (1999)
• Fact, Fantasy and German History (Bulletin of the GHI Washington No. 26 2000)
• Democratic Centralism and Regionalism in the GDR, in M. Umbach (ed.), German Federalism: Past, present and Future (2002)
• Retheorising state and society in the German Democratic Republic, in P. Major and J. Osmond (eds.), The Workers and Peasants State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71 (2002)

Herausgebertätigkeit in Auswahl:

• National Histories and European History (1993)
• (with D. Cesarani) Citizenship, Nationality and Migration in Europe (1996)
• German History since 1800 (1997)
• With Martin Swales, Representing the German Nation (2000)
• 20th Century Germany: Politics, Culture and Society 1918-1990 (2001)
• The Short Oxford History of Europe since 1945 (2001)

Forschergruppen, Forschungsprojekte : AHRB-funded project on 'The "Normalisation of Rule"? State and Society in the GDR, 1961-1979'

Verbindung mit wiss. Gesellschaften : Chair, German History Society, 1996-1999

Weitere Angaben zu Forschungs-, Verwaltungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten:

• Head, UCL German Department
• Director, UCL Centre for European Studies

Letzte Aktualisierung: Wed Jun 18 17:56:44 2003

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA (Cantab), AM, PhD (Harvard), FRHistS