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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Howard [Geoff] Eley is a British-born historian of Germany. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex in 1974. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Department of History since 1979 and the Department of German Studies since 1997. He now serves as the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at Michigan.

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Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century (1990) (423)
The peculiarities of German history: bourgeois society and politics in nineteenth-century Germany (1985) (283)
Culture/power/history : a reader in contemporary social theory (1994) (277)
The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism. (1985) (196)
The Peculiarities Of German History (1984) (182)
A Nation of Provincials. The German Idea of Heimat (1993) (171)
Farewell to the Working Class? (2000) (152)
A crooked line (2005) (144)
Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (1981) (143)
Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 (2002) (122)
Politics, Culture, and the Public Sphere (2002) (81)
Labor History, Social History, "Alltagsgeschichte": Experience, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday--a New Direction for German Social History? (1989) (71)
Why does social history ignore politics (1980) (69)
Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 (1998) (66)
The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (2007) (64)
Is All the World a Text? From Social History to the History of Society Two Decades Later (1990) (63)
Finding the People's War: Film, British Collective Memory, and World War II (2001) (61)
The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis. (1985) (55)
After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (2009) (52)
Historicizing the Global, Politicizing Capital: Giving the Present a Name (2007) (52)
From Unification to Nazism (1986) (49)
Defining social imperialism: Use and abuse of an idea 1 (1976) (46)
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (2006) (45)
Reshaping the German right (1980) (45)
VIEWPOINT NAZISM, POLITICS AND THE IMAGE OF THE PAST: THOUGHTS ON THE WEST GERMAN HISTORIKERSTREIT 1986–1987 (1988) (43)
What Produces Fascism: Preindustrial Traditions or a Crisis of a Capitalist State (1983) (43)
The "Goldhagen Effect." History, Memory, Nazism--Facing the German Past (2002) (42)
After the Nazi Racial State (2009) (41)
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 (1989) (30)
Nationalism and social history (1981) (29)
Starting over: The present, the post‐modern and the moment of social history (1995) (27)
Legacies of Antifascism: Constructing Democracy in Postwar Europe (1996) (27)
The Unease of History: Settling Accounts with the East German Past (2004) (25)
Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany (2007) (25)
The 1970s and 1980s as a Turning Point in European History? (2011) (23)
German Colonialism in a Global Age (2014) (23)
Reading Gramsci in English: Observations on the Reception of Antonio Gramsci in the English-speaking World 1957-82 (1984) (23)
The social history of indstrialization: ‘proto-indstry’ and the (1984) (20)
What is Cultural History (1995) (20)
Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill (1988) (18)
Reshaping the Right: Radical Nationalism and the German Navy League, 1898–1908 (1978) (18)
Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: (17)
History with the Politics Left Out-Again? (1986) (16)
Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800-1945 (1991) (12)
The "Goldhagen Effect" (2000) (12)
Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945 (2013) (11)
Capitalism and the Wilhelmine State: Industrial Growth and Political Backwardness in Recent German Historiography, 1890–1918 (1978) (10)
The legacy of Rosa Luxemburg (1980) (10)
The Past Under Erasure? History, Memory, and the Contemporary (2011) (10)
Fascism Then and Now (2016) (10)
Watching Schindler's List: Not the Last Word (1997) (9)
Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg, eds., The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (2021) (8)
German History and the Contradictions of Modernity (1992) (8)
Conservatives and radical nationalists in Germany: the production of fascist potentials, 1912–28 (2003) (8)
Europe after 1945 (2008) (8)
The Social Construction of Democracy in Germany, 1871–1933 (1995) (8)
The Challenge of Modernity: German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960 (2002) (7)
Beneath the Skin. Or: How to Forget about the Empire Without Really Trying (2002) (6)
Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism (2012) (6)
Some Thoughts on the Nationalist Pressure Groups in Imperial Germany (1981) (6)
Being Undisciplined: On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005) (6)
Dilemmas and Challenges of Social History since the 1960s: What Comes after the Cultural Turn? (2008) (6)
Sammlungspolitik, Social Imperialism and the Navy Law of 1898 (2019) (5)
The profane and imperfect world of historiography (2008) (5)
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.Rogers Brubaker (1993) (5)
James Sheehan and the German Liberals: A Critical Appreciation (1981) (5)
How and where is German history centered (2006) (4)
Inventing the Nation: Germany (2006) (4)
History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé , edited by Frederick Krantz (Montréal, Quebec: Concordia University, 1985). (1989) (4)
Maternalism and Citizenship in Weimar Germany: the Gendered Politics of Welfare (1997) (4)
REVIEWING THE SOCIALIST TRADITION (1990) (4)
Basic Assumptions of German Historiography (1984) (4)
Making a place in the nation: Meanings of "citizenship" in Wilhelmine Germany (2003) (4)
Sotiris Rizas, The Rise of the Left in Southern Europe: Anglo-American Responses (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012). (1969) (4)
Transnational Labour History: Explorations (2005) (4)
Hitler’s Silent Majority? Conformity and Resistance Under the Third Reich (Part One) (2003) (3)
Historical Accountability and the Contest of Memory: Nazism and Business History (2000) (3)
Alon Confino. A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide. (2014) (3)
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. III: The Nineteenth Century (review) (2004) (3)
Corporatism and the Social Democratic Moment: The Postwar Settlement, 1945–1973 (2012) (3)
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (1987) (3)
Culture, Britain, and Europe (1992) (3)
REFLECTIONS ON DEMOCRACY (2004) (3)
Stuart Hall, 1932–2014 (2015) (3)
Scholarship serving the Nazi State I: Studying the East (1989) (3)
What Produces Fascism: Pre-Industrial Traditions or A Crisis of the Capitalist State? (2019) (3)
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures (2016) (3)
Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany: Frankfurt am Main, 1866–1914. By Jan Palmowski. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xiv + 391. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-820-750-6. (2003) (3)
The View from the Throne: The Personal Rule of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1985) (3)
War, Peace and Revolution. International Socialism at the Crossroads (1988) (3)
How Do We Explain the Rise of Nazism? Theory and Historiography (2018) (3)
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936–1946, ed. Martin Conway and Peter Romijn (2012) (2)
End of the post-war? The 1970s as a key watershed in European history (2011) (2)
Back to the Beginning: European Labor, U.S. Influence, and the Start of the Cold War (1991) (2)
Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin De Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act (2015) (2)
Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy (review) (2005) (2)
Playing it safe. or how is history represented? the new cambridge social history of britain (1993) (2)
Class, Culture, and Politics in the Kaiserreich (1994) (2)
Empire by Land or Sea?: Germany’s Imperial Imaginary, 1840–1945 (2014) (2)
The German Right, 1860–1945: How It Changed (2019) (2)
Communists and National Socialists: The Foundations of a Century, 1914-39. By Ken Post. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 222 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $65.00, hard bound. (2000) (2)
A Disorder of Peoples: The Uncertain Ground of Reconstruction in 1945 (2011) (2)
Contemporary Germany and Denial: Is ‘Nazism’ All there is to Say? (2017) (2)
Reply: Class and the Politics of History (2000) (2)
Peace in the Neighbourhood (2007) (2)
Memories of under‐development: Social history in Germany (1977) (2)
Taking Stock: The First Year of CSST (1989) (2)
From cultures of militancy to the politics of culture: Writing the history of British communism (1997) (2)
Working-Class Agency: Past and Present (2013) (2)
What is Fascism and Where does it Come From? (2021) (2)
Bourgeoisie—Liberalism—Democracy: Some Necessary Distinctions (1984) (1)
Beyond National Socialism? (2012) (1)
Missionaries of the Volksgemeinschaft: Ordinary Women, Nazification, and the Social (2013) (1)
Nazism across Borders: The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal (2019) (1)
Rejoinder to Perlin's ‘Scrutinizing which moment?’ (1986) (1)
The Unresolved Past. A Debate in German History (1993) (1)
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989). (1992) (1)
1 Germany, the Fischer Controversy, and the Context of War: Rethinking German Imperialism, 1880–1914 (2015) (1)
The ruined maid: Modes and manners of Victorian women (1970) (1)
Conclusion: Troubling Coercion and Consent—Everydayness, Ideology, and Effect in German and Italian Fascism (2017) (1)
Society and Politics in Bismarckian Germany (1997) (1)
University of Michigan Project on International Communism (1986) (1)
Review Article : Society and Politics in Bismarckian Germany (1997) (1)
Culture/Power/History: Series Prospectus (1989) (1)
German and American Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective (2001) (1)
Joy in Work, German Work: The National Debate, 1800–1945, Joan Campbell (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989) (1992) (1)
In Search of the Bourgeois Revolution: The Particularities of German History (1987) (1)
Recent Work in Modern German History (1980) (1)
German Politics and Polish Nationality: The Dialectic of Nation Forming in the East of Prussia (2019) (1)
Origins, Post-Conservatism, and the History of the Right (2010) (1)
State Formation, Nationalism, and Political Culture: Some Thoughts on the Unification of Germany (2019) (1)
The German Right from Weimar to Hitler: Fragmentation and Coalescence (2015) (1)
Capitalism and the Wilhelmine State: Industrial Growth and Political Backwardness, 1890–1918 (2019) (1)
How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling and the “Heritage Film”, 1980–1995 (2009) (1)
Judeocide and German History (1997) (1)
Class Formation, Politics, Structures of Feeling (2013) (1)
Problems with Culture: German History After the Linguistic Turn (1998) (1)
Review: Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940 (2004) (0)
One · Empire by Land or Sea? (2020) (0)
The Realpolitik of the Bourgeoisie and Redundancy of Liberalism (1984) (0)
Book Review:Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire Fritz Stern (1978) (0)
David Motadel. Islam and Nazi Germany’s War.Francis R. Nicosia. Nazi Germany and the Arab World. (2016) (0)
The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor (2008) (0)
Combining Two Histories: The SPD adn the German Working Class Before 1914 (1984) (0)
Possibilities of Reform in Britain and Germany (1984) (0)
Lin Chun — The British New Left (1994) (0)
Social Imperialism in Germany: Reformist Synthesis or Reactionary Sleight of Hand? Like (2019) (0)
To die for Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon: Jay W. Baird (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), xvii + 329 pp., $35.00 (1993) (0)
Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation . By Shulamit Volkov. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii+311. Cloth $70.00. ISBN 0-521-84688-9. Paper $24.99. ISBN 0-521-60959-3. (2008) (0)
Book Review: Jan Rüger, The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007; xv + 337 pp.; 9780521875769, £50.00 (hbk) (2011) (0)
A Response to David Abraham (1985) (0)
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (review) (2002) (0)
Frank Lorenz Müller, Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany (2014) (0)
P BECOMING NATIONAL A READER (2006) (0)
Bürgertum in Deutschland. By Lothar Gall (Berlin, Germany: Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag, 1989. 635 pp.) (1993) (0)
Carl Peters and German Imperialism, 1856–1918: A Political Biography (2006) (0)
Nazism, Everydayness, and Spectacle (2020) (0)
Marxism and Socialist Revolution (2017) (0)
Reviews of Books:Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge James C. Scott, Nina Bhatt (2003) (0)
Book Review:The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War Arno J. Mayer (1982) (0)
Continuity and change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: from the 1918 revolution to the Ruhr crisis (2003) (0)
Barry A. Jackisch, The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39 (2015) (0)
History, Heritage and the National Past in British Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s (2019) (0)
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought ed. by Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys (review) (2015) (0)
Crossing the Boundaries@@@New Perspectives on Historical Writing.@@@Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. (1993) (0)
Europe (1985) (0)
Review: John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888—1900, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004; 1310 pp., 55 illus.; 0521819202, £95 (hbk) (2008) (0)
Hans Rosenberg and the Great Depression of 1873–96: Politics and Economics in Recent German Historiography, 1960–80 (2019) (0)
New Directions in Social and Cultural History (2019) (0)
tions in Bavaria across the reigns of Louis the Pious, Charlemagne’s son, and Louis the German, Charlemagne’s grandson. Brown ands that in the eighth century, under the Agilolang dukes (2002) (0)
Bourgeois Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edited by Jürgen Kocka and Allen Mitchell. Oxford/Providence: Berg. 1993. Pp. xii + 468. Cloth $74.00. ISBN 0-85496-676-5. Paper $19.95. ISBN 0-85496-414-2. (1994) (0)
Theoretical Bearings: The British Societal Model (1984) (0)
Is There a British Approach to German History? (2016) (0)
Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security, and Populism in the New Europe. By Mabel Berezin. Cambridge Cultural Social Studies. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven Seidman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii+304. $99.00 (cloth); $37.99 (paper). (2012) (0)
In defence of the distant past (2010) (0)
Educating the Bourgeoisie: Students and the Culture of “Illiberalism” in Imperial Germany (1986) (0)
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (review) (2006) (0)
Defining the State in Imperial Germany (1984) (0)
Army, State and Civil Society: Revisiting the Problem of German Militarism (2019) (0)
Liberalism forever: intellectual history, social history and the global adventures of a concept (2014) (0)
Book Review: Kaiser Wilhelm II (2002) (0)
Book Reviews : Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800-1945. By Michael Hughes. London: Edward Arnold. 1988. viii + 237 pp. 7.95 paperback (1991) (0)
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany.Richard F. Hamilton (1992) (0)
Backward State/Modern Economy: Unscrambling the German Couplet (1984) (0)
The 1970 s and 1980 s as a Turning Point in European History ? With Contributions from Göran Therborn (2018) (0)
Some Provisional Conclusions (1984) (0)
Roger Chickering. We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886–1914. Boston: George Allen and Unwin. 1984. Pp. xiv, 365. $29.95 (1985) (0)
Europe (1987) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
Capitalist State What Produces Fascism : Preindustrial Traditions or a Crisis of a (2006) (0)
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (review) (2015) (0)
Columbia University Press has republished Raymond Williams two classics, Culture and Society, 17801950 and The Long Revolution, in both cloth and paper (1985, originally published in 1957 and 1961, respectively) (1987) (0)
Europe (1990) (0)
Germany and the Causes of the First World War (2006) (0)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (2020) (0)
Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt, ed. Robert Gildea, James Mark and Anette Warring (2015) (0)
4 Intellectuals and the German Labor Movement (2020) (0)
Joining Two Histories: The SPD and the German Working Class, 1860–1914 (2019) (0)
Reviews of Books (2004) (0)
Book Review:Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics Claudia Koonz (1989) (0)
Book Review: A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism (2001) (0)
Books received (2010) (0)
Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914 (1985) (0)
Mona, enchanted island : an introduction to Anglesey (1968) (0)
Review : The Peculiarities ofGerman History (2017) (0)
CSS Volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1994) (0)
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews (2018) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2008) (0)
Matthias Reiss (ed.), The street as stage: protest marches and public rallies since the nineteenth century . (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.) Pages xiv+367. $175.00. (2009) (0)
The Camberwell beauty in north Essex (1976) (0)
History and cinema: Imagining Britain's past (1999) (0)
Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe. Edited by Roland Sussex and J. C. Eade. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1985. 158 pp. $12.95, paper. (1986) (0)
A German Century (2016) (0)
CSSH readers may wish to note the appearance of Town and Country in the Development of Early Modern Western Europe, by John Langton and Goran Hoppe (Historical Geography Research Series No. 11, November 1983). (1989) (0)
Missionaries of the Volksgemeinschaft: Ordinary Women and the Nazification of the East (2005) (0)
CSSH Notes (1988) (0)
The Socialist Left and the German Revolution. A History of the German Independent Social Democratic Party, 1917–1922 . By David W. Morgan. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 499. £12.70. (1977) (0)
Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526–1850. By Paula Sutter Fichtner. (London, England: Reaktion Books, 2008. Pp.205. $45.00.) (2011) (0)
Being undisciplined. On Your Marx: From Cultural History to the History of Society (2005) (0)
Robert Gerwarth and John Horne, eds, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War; James Harris, ed., The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin (2016) (0)
Book Reviews : A Nation of Provincials. The German Idea of Heimat. By Celia Applegate. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1990. xii + 273 pp. $45.00 (1993) (0)
Weimar and Nazi Germany: Continuities and Discontinuities (2002) (0)
German modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar (2016) (0)
1. Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany (2007) (0)
WRITING THE NATION INTO HISTORY (2018) (0)
Nation—Volk—Rasse: Radikaler Nationalismus im Deutchen Kaiserreich 1890-1914 (2010) (0)
1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (2020) (0)
Crossing the North Sea — is there a British Approach to German History? (2015) (0)
German Historians and the Problem of Bourgeois Revolution (1984) (0)
Putting German (and Britain) Liberalism into Context: Liberalism, Europe, and the Bourgeoisie, 1840-1914 (1989) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, ed. Helmut Walser Smith (2013) (0)
The German Army League: Popular Nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany. (1991) (0)
leading student of the importance of social class in understanding contempo- rary politics and social change, Zeitlin has studied the course of revolutions in Chile (2009) (0)
The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918–1945 (2003) (0)
Thinking about the Left Today (2011) (0)
Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin, eds, Protest in Hitler’s ‘National Community’: Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response (2017) (0)
Book Reviews : The Unresolved Past. A Debate in German History. A Conference sponsored by the Wheatland Foundation. Chaired and Introduced by Ralf Dahrendorf. Edited by Gina Thomas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1990. xiv + 138 pp (1993) (0)
Shape-shifting (2015) (0)
What Does it All Mean and What Difference Can it Make? A Conversation with Geoff Eley (2013) (0)
Book Reviews : Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910. By Richard J. Evans. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1987. xxv + 676 pp. 55.00 (1989) (0)
Some Remarks on the Formation of the Working-class: The Past and the Present (2015) (0)
Bryan D. Palmer — Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression (2002) (0)
The Problem of Revolution in Germany, 1789–1989 . Edited by Reinhard Rürup. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2000. Pp. xii + 204. $65.00. ISBN 1-85973-276-3. (2005) (0)
Publicness (and its problems): Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values (2013) (0)
14. Some General Thoughts on Citizenship in Germany (2007) (0)
Visualizing Fascism (2020) (0)
Straightening the Line (2007) (0)

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