Besondere Forschungsgebiete German cultural history (1871-1933)
Monographien
Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany. The Case of Industrial Architecture (1995)
Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918 (2003)
Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918 (2007)
Hamburg: A Cultural History (2010)
Aufsätze und Beiträge
Back to the Future? The Heimatschutz Movement in Wilhelmine Germany (History, 1992)
Weimar. The Working Classes and the Rise of National Socialism (GH, 1992)
The Werkbund in Delmenhorst. A Forgotten Episode in German Design History (Journal of Design History, 1994)
Heimatschutz. Environmental Activism in Wilhelmine Germany, in Green Thought in German Culture (ed. C. Riordan, 1997*)
Cultural and Intellectual Trends in Imperial Germany, in German History since 1800 (ed. M. Fulbrook, 1997*)
A City in Distress? Paul Bröcker and The New Architecture of Hamburg 1900-1918, in The City in Central Europe (ed. M. Gee et al.) (1997*)
Der Werkbund in Delmenhorst: eine vergessene Episode der deutschen Design-Geschichte, in Linoleum. Geschichte, Design, Architektur 1882-2000 (ed. G. Kaldewei) (2000*)
Neue Deutsche Welle, in German Culture and Society. The Essential Glossary (ed. H. Briel)(2002*)
Peter J. Weber (1863-1923): A German Architect in turn- of-the-century Chicago, (Journal of Illinois History, 2003)
