¹ Michael Geyer and Konrad H. Jarausch, A Shattered Past: (Re-)Constructing German Histories (forthcoming).

² See, e.g., Mary Fulbrook, The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918­1990 (Oxford, 1991), Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949­1989 (New York, 1995), and German National Identity After the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999).

³ Michael Geyer and Konrad H. Jarausch, eds., "German Histories: Challenges in Theory, Practice, Technique," special issue of Central European History 22 (1989): 227­457. See also the debate with Kenneth Barkin in German Studies Review 18 (1995): 241­73, and the subsequent discussion on H-German.

⁴ Christoph Conrad and Martina Kessel, eds., Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne: Beiträge zur aktuellen Diskussion (Stuttgart, 1994); and Christoph Conrad and Martina Kessel, eds., Kultur und Geschichte: neue Einblicke in eine alte Beziehung (Stuttgart, 1998). For the debate, see also "Review Symposium Kultur und Geschichte," in "Humanities-Net Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte (H-Soz-u-Kult): Bilanz nach drei Jahren," a special issue of Historical Social Research 24 (1999): 36­81.

⁵ Richard J. Evans, In Defense of History (London, 1997); and Mary Fulbrook, Historical Theory: Or, Talking Sense about History (London, 2000).

⁶ For critics of this post-postmodern consensus, see Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, eds., Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a New Historical Society (New York, 1999).

⁷ Geoff Eley, ed., Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870­1930 (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1996); and Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (New York, 1993).

⁸ See Chris Lorenz, "Postmoderne Herausforderungen an die Gesellschaftsgeschichte?" Geschichte und Gesellschaft 24 (1998): 617­32.

⁹ Konrad H. Jarausch, "Illiberalism and Beyond: German History in Search of a Paradigm," Journal of Modern History 55 (1983): 268­84.

¹⁰ For the rediscovery of the cultural dimension of Max Weber, see Peter Jelavich, "Methode? Welche Methode? Bekenntnisse eines gescheiterten Strukturalisten," in Conrad and Kessel, eds., Kultur und Geschichte, 142ff; and Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Die Herausforderung der Kulturgeschichte (Munich, 1998).

¹¹ Georg Iggers, ed., The Social History of Politics: Critical Perspectives in German Historical Writing Since 1945 (Leamington Spa, U.K., 1985).

¹² Mary Fulbrook, "New Historikerstreit, Missed Opportunity, or New Beginning?" German History 12 (1994): 203­7.

¹³ Klaus Schroeder, Der SED-Staat: Partei, Staat und Gesellschaft 1949­1990 (Munich, 1998); and Stefan Wolle, Die heile Welt der Diktatur: Alltag und Herrschaft in der DDR 1971­1989 (Berlin, 1998).

¹⁴ See Thomas Lindenberger, ed., Herrschaft und Eigen-Sinn in der Diktatur: Studien zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte der DDR (Cologne, 1999), as well as the companion volumes edited by Michael Lemke, Peter Hübner, and Martin Sabrow.

¹⁵ Michael Geyer and Konrad H. Jarausch, "Twentieth Century Germany: Rethinking a Shattered Past," in Geyer and Jarausch, eds., A Shattered Past.

¹⁶ "Getrennte Vergangenheit - Gemeinsame Geschichte? Protokoll einer Podiumsdiskussion vom 29. Mai 1999" at the Geschichtsforum in Berlin, Postdamer Bulletin für Zeithistorische Studien 15 (Aug. 1999): 13­46.

¹⁷ Jean François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis, 1984). See also Matthias Middell's project proposal, titled "Konjunkturen und Krisen der nationalgeschichtlichen Meistererzählungen im Vergleich," Leipzig, 1999.

¹⁸ See Konrad H. Jarausch, "A Return to National History?" as well as "The Collapse of the Counter-Narrative," and "Modernization, German Exceptionalism, and Postmodernity," all in Geyer and Jarausch, eds., A Shattered Past .

¹⁹ Chris Lorenz, Konstruktion der Vergangenheit: Eine Einführung in die Geschichtstheorie (Cologne, 1997).

²⁰ Konrad H. Jarausch, "Realer Sozialismus als Fürsorgediktatur: Zur begrifflichen Einordnung der DDR," Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 1998, B20: 33ff; and Konrad H. Jarausch, "Die Gescheiterte Gegengesellschaft: überlegungen zu einer Sozialgeschichte der DDR," Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 39 (1999): 1ff.

²¹ Cf. Joan Wallach Scott, "Border Patrol" and Lloyd S. Kramer, "Gerard Noiriel's Pragmatic Quest for Paradigms," both in French Historical Studies 21 (1998): 383ff, 399ff.

²² Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, N.Y., 1989). See also Eric J. Hobsbawm, "Eine gespaltene Welt geht ins 21. Jahrhundert," Frankfurter Rundschau, Dec. 4, 1999.

²³ Michael Geyer, "Germany or The Twentieth Century as History," South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (1997): 663ff.