Tiếng Anh

• Boahen, A. Adu, ed. (1985). Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880–1935. Berkeley: U of California Press.  ISBN 978-0-520-06702-8 (1990 Abridged edition).
• Carroll, E. Malcolm. Germany and the great powers, 1866-1914: A study in public opinion and foreign policy (1938) online[liên kết hỏng]; online at Questia also online review
• Crankshaw, Edward (1981). Bismarck. New York: The Viking Press. ISBN 0-14-006344-7. 
• Davidson, J. W. (1967). Samoa mo Samoa, the Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 
• Eley, Geoff, and Bradley Naranch, eds. German Colonialism in a Global Age (Duke UP, 2014).
• Gann, L., and Peter Duignan. The Rulers of German Africa, 1884–1914 (1977) focuses on political and economic history
• Garfield, Brian (2007). The Meinertzhagen Mystery. Washington, DC: Potomac Books. ISBN 1-59797-041-7. 
• Giordani, Paolo (1916). The German colonial empire, its beginning and ending. Luân Đôn: G. Bell. 
• Kundrus, Birthe "Germany and its Colonies" in Prem Poddar et al. Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures—Continental Europe and its Colonies (Edinburgh UP, 2008.)
• Lahti, Janne. "German Colonialism and the Age of Global Empires." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 17.1 (2016). historiography; excerpt
• Lewthwaite, Gordon R. (1962). James W. Fox; Kenneth B. Cumberland, biên tập. Life, Land and Agriculture to Mid-Century in Western Samoa. Christchurch, New Zealand: Whitcomb & Tombs Ltd. 
• Louis, Wm. Roger (1967). Great Britain and Germany's Lost Colonies 1914–1919. Clarendon Press. 
• Louis, Wm. Roger (1963). Ruanda-Urundi 1884–1919. Clarendon Press. 
• Miller, Charles (1974). Battle for the Bundu. The First World War in East Africa. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-584930-1. 
• Olivier, David H. German Naval Strategy, 1856–1888: Forerunners to Tirpitz (Routledge, 2004)
• Reimann-Dawe, Tracey. "The British Other on African soil: the rise of nationalism in colonial German travel writing on Africa," Patterns of Prejudice (2011) 45#5 pp 417–433, the perceived hostile force was Britain, not the natives
• Smith, W.D. (1974). “The Ideology of German Colonialism, 1840–1906”. Journal of Modern History 46 (1974): 641–663. doi:10.1086/241266. 
• Steinmetz, George (2007). “The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226772438. 
• Stoecker, Helmut, ed. (1987). German Imperialism in Africa: From the Beginnings Until the Second World War. Translated by Bernd Zöllner. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International. ISBN 978-0-391-03383-2. 
• Strandmann, Hartmut Pogge von. "Domestic Origins of Germany's Colonial Expansion under Bismarck" Past & Present (1969) 42:140–159 online
• Taylor, A.J.P. (1967). Bismarck, The Man and the Statesman. New York: Random House, Inc. 
• Wehler, Hans-Ulrich "Bismarck's Imperialism 1862–1890," Past & Present, (1970) 48: 119–55 online
• Wesseling, H.L. (1996). Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Westport, CT: Preager. ISBN 978-0-275-95137-5.  ISBN 978-0-275-95138-2 (paperback).

Tiếng Đức

• Detzner, Hermann, (Oberleut.) Kamerun Boundary: Die nigerische Grenze von Kamerun zwischen Yola und dem Cross-fluss. M. Teuts. Schutzgeb. 26 (13): 317–338.
• Haupt, Werner (1984). Deutschlands Schutzgebiete in Übersee 1884–1918. [Germany’s Overseas Protectorates 1884–1918]. Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas Verlag. ISBN 3-7909-0204-7. 
• Nagl, Dominik (2007). Grenzfälle – Staatsangehörigkeit, Rassismus und nationale Identität unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Verlag. ISBN 978-3-631-56458-5.
• Perraudin, Michael, and Jürgen Zimmerer, eds. German Colonialism and National Identity (2010) focuses on cultural impact in Africa and Germany.
• Schultz-Naumann, Joachim (1985). Unter Kaisers Flagge, Deutschlands Schutzgebiete im Pazifik und in China einst und heute. [Under the Kaiser’s flag, Germany’s Protectorates in the Pacific and in China then and today]. Munich: Universitas Verlag. 
• Schaper, Ulrike (2012). Koloniale Verhandlungen. Gerichtsbarkeit, Verwaltung und Herrschaft in Kamerun 1884-1916. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. ISBN 3-593-39639-4. 
• Washausen, Helmut (1968). Hamburg und die Kolonialpolitik des Deutschen Reiches. [Hamburg and Colonial Politics of the German Empire]. Hamburg: Hans Christians Verlag. 
• Karl Waldeck: "Gut und Blut für unsern Kaiser", Windhoek 2010, ISBN 978-99945-71-55-0
• Historicus Africanus: "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15, Band 1, 2. Auflage Windhoek 2012, ISBN 978-99916-872-1-6
• Historicus Africanus: "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15, Band 2, "Naulila", Windhoek 2012, ISBN 978-99916-872-3-0
• Historicus Africanus: "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15, Band 3, "Kämpfe im Süden", Windhoek 2014, ISBN 978-99916-872-8-5
• Historicus Africanus: "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15, Band 4, "Der Süden ist verloren", Windhoek 2015, ISBN
• Historicus Africanus: "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15, Band 5, "Aufgabe der Küste", Windhoek 2016, ISBN 978-99916-909-4-0

Tiếng Pháp

• Gemeaux (de), Christine,(dir., présentation et conclusion): "Empires et colonies. L'Allemagne du Saint-Empire au deuil post-colonial", Clermont-Ferrand,PUBP, coll. 'Politiques et Identités'", 2010, ISBN 978-2-84516-436-9.