I've been working my way through Ian Kershaw's Hitler, and it's sparked an interest in early Weimar history. What are some good academic books that cover that time period, or the German Revolution in particular? I have a particular interest in the Sparticist Uprising/Revolt, but I'm open to suggestions that cover the war or that time period in general.
I'm partial to Eberhard Kolb's book The Weimar Republic which covers the entire republic, but devotes a good portion to the revolutions and instability that plagued the early republic.
Two older works that still are frequently referenced in the historical literature with regards to the November Revolution are The German Revolution of 1918: A Study of German Socialism in War and Revolt by A. J. Ryder and The German Revolution 1917-1923 by Pierre Broue. Ryder's work largely focuses upon the SPD in the run-up to the revolution while Broue the various left-wing communist factions. Although both works are somewhat dated and reflective of scholarly mores of the late 1960s/70s, they are still important works on this subject.
For scholarship of a more recent vintage, Belinda Davis's Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin is an urban study that focuses upon the Kaiserreich's collapse from within. Using notions of gender, food consumption, and socioeconomic class intersected in wartime Berlin to create a mass crisis in confidence in the imperial government. The anthology Germany 1916-23: A Revolution in Context edited by Klaus Weinhauer, Anthony McElligott and Kirsten Heinsohn gathers together the work of recent historians on the Revolution. Like Davis, the contributors incorporate recent trends in scholarship such as transnationalism to understand these events in Germany and their wider global ramifications.