Dear Denise and Listmembers, Your posts about books in English on German history and other topics prompts me to list some that I have found to be worthwhile reading. Lest you think that there are not many books on German history in English, let me assure you that you'll never run out of reading if you look for some of these, either in your library or on net book dealers' lists. Barraclough, Geoffrey. Mediæval Germany, 911-1250 - Essays by German Historians. 2v. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1948 Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Origins of Modern Germany. New York: Capricorn [rpt of 1946 edn.], 1963 (other editions exist). Benecke, Gerhard. Society and Politics in Germany 1500-1750. London/Toronto: Routledge & Kegan Paul/University of Toronto Press, 1974. Benecke, Gerhard. Germany in the Thirty Years' War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Bruford, W.H. Germany in the Eighteenth Century - The Social Background of the Literary Revival. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1968. Cohn, Henry J. The Government of the Rhine Palatinate in the Fifteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1965. Dorwart, Reinhold August. The Prussian Welfare State before 1740. Cambridge MA: Harvard U.P., 1971. Ergang, Robert. The Myth of the All-Destructive Fury of the Thirty Years' War. Pocono Pines PA: The Craftsmen, 1956. Ford, Guy Stanton. Hanover and Prussia, 1795-1803 - A Study in Neutrality. New York: AMS Press [rpt of 1903 edn.], 1967. Friedrichs, Christopher R. Urban Society in an Age of War: Nördlingen, 1580-1720. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1979. Hughes, Michael. Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806. London: Macmillan, 1992. Imhof, Arthur E. Lost Worlds - How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is So Hard Today. Charlottesville/London: University Press of Virginia, 1996. Janssen, Johannes. History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages. St. Louis MO: B. Herder, n.d. Kamphoefner, Walter D., Wolfgang Helbich and Ulrike Sommer. News from the Land of Freedom - German Immigrants Write Home. Susan Carter Vogel, trans. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1988, 1991. Keil, Hartmut (ed.). German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850-1920. Washington/London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Luebke, Frederick C. Germans in the New World - Essays in the History of Immigration. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Mayhew, Alan. Rural Settlement and Farming in Germany. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973. Nadel, Stanley. Little Germany - Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Pedlow, Gregory W. The Survival of the Hessian Nobility 1770-1870. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Polisensky, J.V. The Thirty Years War. London: New English Library, 1974. Rabb, Theodore K. (ed.). The Thirty Years' War. Lexington MA: D.C. Heath, 1972. Rivinius, Karl Josef. The Social Movement in 19th Century Germany. Munich: Heinz Moos Verlag, 1979. Schneider, Dorothee. Trade Unions and Community - The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Scribner, Bob and Gerhard Benecke. The German Peasant War 1525 - New Viewpoints. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979. Strauss, Gerald. Nuremberg in the 16th Century. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich (ed.). The German Immigrant in America: F.W. Bogen's Guidebook. Bowie, MD: Heritage, 1992. Walker, Mack. German Home Towns - Community, State, and General Estate 1648-1871. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. Wust, Klaus and Heinz Moos (eds.). Three Hundred Years of German Immigrants in North American/Dreihundert Jahre Deutsche Einwanderer in Nordamerika, 1683-1983. Gräfelfing vor München: "300 Jahre Deutsche in Amerika" Verlags-GmbH, 1983 Hope you can find something of interest among the above. All best wishes, Doug Nicol, Santa Rosa CA