The citizen and the state in modern Germany / Peter Pulzer -- German national identity / John Breuilly -- Elites and class structure / Hans-Georg Betz -- Jews in German society / Andrei S. Markovits, Beth Simone Noveck and Carolyn Höfig -- Non-German minorities, women and the emergence of civil society / Eva Kolinsky -- Critiques of culture / Andrew Bowie -- The functions of 'Volkskultur', mass culture and alternative culture / Wilfried Van Der Will -- The development of German prose fiction / Martin Swales -- Modern German poetry / Karen Leeder -- German drama, theatre and dance / Michael Patterson and Michael Huxley -- Music in modern German culture / Erik Levi -- Modern German art / Irit Rogoff -- Modern German architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- German cinema / Martin Brady and Helen Hughes -- The media of mass communication: the press, radio and television / Holger Briel.