Mark R. Stoneman

Publications

“The Schlieffen Plan Debate,” currently under consideration for publication in The Journal of Military History.

“Die deutschen Gräueltaten im Kriege 1870/71 am Beispiel der Bayern,” in: Sönke Neitzel and Daniel Hohrath, eds., Kriegsgreuel: Regelverletzungen und Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten, Paderborn 2008.

“Bürgerliche und adlige Krieger: Zum Verhältnis zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Berufskultur im wilhelminischen Offizierkorps,” in: Heinz Reif, ed., Adel und Bürgertum in Deutschland II: Entwicklungslinien und Wendepunkte im 20. Jahrhundert. Elitenwandel in der Moderne 2. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. 25-63. [ISBN: 305003551X]

“The Bavarian Army and French Civilians in the War of 1870-1871: A Cultural Interpretation,” in: War in History 8.3 (2001): 271-93. Reprinted in Peter H. Wilson, ed., Warfare in Europe 1825-1914. The International Library of Essays on Military History, ed. Jeremy Black. Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 135-58. [ISSN: 0968-3445]

“Viewpoint” contributions to “Chemical Warfare,” “Hitler and the United States,” and “Resistance Movements,” in: Dennis Showalter, ed., History in Dispute, Vol. 5, World War II. Detroit: St. James, 2001. 104-7, 132-35, 244-46. [ISBN: 1558624112]

“Particularistic Traditions in a National Profession: Reflections on the Wilhelmine Army Officer Corps,” in: Newsletter des Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. 11 (2/2000): 16-18. [ISSN: 1434-7873]

“Christof Vischer: Wie man junge Fürsten und Herren aufferzihen solle, 1573,” in: Hans-Otto Mühleisen et. al., Fürstenspiegel der Frühen Neuzeit. Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1997. 219-51. [ISBN: 3458167013]

Theses

“Wilhelm Groener, Officering, and the Schlieffen Plan.” PhD diss., Georgetown University, 2006.

“The Bavarian Army and French Civilians in the War of 1870-71.” MA thesis, Universität Augsburg, 1994.

Conferences and Workshops

Presented commentary at the annual meeting of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte in Bochum, Germany in 1998 on the Bavarian soldiers’ use of gender to understand their experiences with partisans in the Franco-Prussian War.

Explored the implications of Wilhelm Groener’s bourgeois social background for our understanding of the Imperial German officer corps. Venues included “Military Culture in European Societies, 1871-1989” at Harvard University in 1998 and a symposium in 1999 at the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, convened by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Project “Elitenwandel in der gesellschaftlichen Modernisierung” (Technische Universität, Berlin).