For a while, the bulk of the Anglophone scholarship on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and Central Europe focuses on the Rhineland and Prussia. Michael Rowe's From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830 has superseded Tim Blanning's The French Revolution in Germany: Occupation and Resistance in the Rhineland 1792-1802, and both are examples of the Rhennish focus of some monographs. Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806–1848 by Matthew Levinger is a long-form view of the impact of this era upon Prussian politics and builds of the model of Peter Paret's Clausewitz and the State. Karen Hagemann's recent monograph Revisiting Prussia's Wars Against Napoleon: History, Culture, and Memory examines the impact of the Napoleonic period on Prussian culture and the arts.

There have been a number of efforts to shift focus away from the Rhine and Prussia. Volume 39 of the 2006 year of Central European History devoted an entire issue to the Napoleonic period and includes contributions by Rowe, Hagemann, and other specialists in the field. There are other important essays on the German states in the anthologies Napoleon's Empire: European Politics in a Global Perspective, Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, and Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830. Leighton James's Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe has a bit broader Central European focus than most monographs on this topic. Sam Mustafa has a forthcoming book, Napoleon's Paper Kingdom: The Life and Death of Westphalia, 1807–1813, that promises to be quite interesting given his earlier book, The Long Ride of Major von Schill and his wide-ranging research into the region (he has shared some of these insights into his postings on napoleon-series.org).

Jewish emancipation is a tricky thing because actual emancipation in Central Europe often lagged behind decrees. The section on Germany in Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship shows the often circuitous route of emancipation as does the relevant chapter in Amos Elon's The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the Jew in Germany, 1743-1933. Most of the works mentioned above either dismiss, downplay, or qualify the idea that French occupation stoked a German national awakening. This was a narrative that developed in the wake of German unification and portrayed resistance to foreign occupation as part of a growing sense of Germanness. Michael Rowe's entry in the anthology Popular Resistance and the French Wars explores some of the complicated dimensions of resistance to the French and their (often German) allies. Rather than anticipating national unification, a number of German intellectuals anticipated that Napoleon would revive the Holy Roman Empire. The anthology The Bee and the Eagle Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806-1850 is a good starting point to grasp the Napoleon's impact on the HRE's terminal years. One of the biggest impacts Napoleon had upon Central Europe was upon the economy and the anthology Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System Local, Regional and European Experiences contextualizes Central Europe's position within Napoleon's oft-maligned economic bloc.

The big name in Napoleonic military studies and Germany is Michael Leggiere. Not only has he written an exemplary biography of Blücher, he has published a two-volume study of the 1813 campaign, Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany, that is highly illuminating on what was one of the darker corners of Napoleonic military historiography. John Gill's various studies of the 1809 campaign does an excellent job of examining the Rheinbund contributions to French victories in a hard-fought campaign. Gill has also edited a superb series of letters from a Bavarian junior officer, A Soldier for Napoleon: The Campaigns of Lieutenant Franz Joseph Hausmann that mostly covers the destruction of the 1812 Russian campaign.