James Retallack
Biographic Data
| ID | 1050180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Retallack |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Retallack |
| SIGNATURE | RETALLACK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4572-3662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eingegangene Bücher
Red Saxony
This book throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped; but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of Social Democrat…
Authoritarianism Under Siege: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
In the years 1890–93, German Conservatism experienced an electoral crisis—and a crisis of conscience. One wing of the party preached antisemitism, first in close cooperation with radical antisemites, later to distance themselves from them. Another wing wanted to preserve the party’s close ties with the government and other instruments of authority. Saxon Conservatives were represented in both groups and often found themselves in the vanguard. The…
Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930
Mapping the Red Threat: The Politics of Exclusion in Leipzig Before 1914
Long before Adolf Hitler’s appearance clouded democracy’s prospects in Germany, election battles had provided a means to disadvantage “enemies of the Reich” in the polling booth. Such battles were waged not only during election campaigns but also when new voting laws were legislated and district boundaries were redrawn. Maps produced during the Imperial era informed voters, statesmen, and social scientists how the principle of the fair and equal …
British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism and Ambivalence, 1860-1914
This book is a welcome addition to the field of imagology—how one nation sees another. It does not simply study existing national stereotypes, polarizing rants and intentional false images (Trugbilder). Unlike other works of the same genre, it examines the origins and meanings of alleged national characteristics as portrayed in maps of Germany, literature, travel guides and political cartoons. It goes further, to consider the motivations of Brito…
Reform or Revolution? British Envoys to Germany and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1816-1905
Journal Article Reform or Revolution? British Envoys to Germany and the Culture of Diplomacy, 1816–1905 Get access British Envoys to Germany, 1816–1866 (Camden Fifth Series, vols 15, 21, 28, 37). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society in Association with the German Historical Institute London.Vol. 1: 1816–1829. Edited by Sabine Freitag Peter Wende. 2000. xxii + 592 pp. £40.00 (hardback).Vol. 2: 1830–1847. Edited by…
Digital History Anthologies on the Web: German History in Documents and Images
Initial public offerings (IPOs) in the dot-com world do not always turn out to be the darlings they are expected to be. Ask Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's IPO in May 2012. But even successful new ventures often defy their founders' expectations. As we hope to suggest in the following report, German History in Documents and Images (GHDI)—a project that has put thousands of primary source texts, drawings, photographs, and maps on the internet, al…
Imperial Germany 1871–1918
The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; and its avant-garde artists reflected the ferment in…
The German Right, 1860?1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
Written with clear, persuasive prose, this wide-ranging analysis draws together threads of reasoning from German and Anglo-American scholars over the past 30 years and points the way for future research into unexplored areas.
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: Essays for Hartmut Pogge Von Strandmann
What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German politic…
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933
Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933
During the hundred years examined in this volume, ordinary Germans discovered a and powerful attachment to the nation. But throughout this period, national loyalties competed with preexisting loyalties to the locality and the region. The resulting tension made it difficult for Germans to assign clear priorities to one kind of symbolic attachment over another.Focusing on the east German state of Saxony, the contributors to this volume refuse easy …
Saxon Signposts: Cultural Battles, Identity Politics, and German Authoritarianism in Transition
Conservatives and Antisemites in Baden and Saxony
Journal Article Conservatives and Antisemites in Baden and Saxony Get access James Retallack James Retallack University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 507–526, https://doi.org/10.1191/026635599674729361 Published: 01 October 1999
Rituals of Retribution: Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987
Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 3: Von der Deutschen Doppelrevolution bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges, 1849-1914
Modernisierung und Region im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Wahlen, Wahlrecht und politische Kultur
Why Can’t a Saxon be More Like a Prussian?” Regional Identities and the Birth of Modern Political Culture in Germany, 1866-67
Before the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, many Saxons regarded their kingdom as a “lucky” little homeland, undisturbed by the militarist spirit and constitutional crisis that afflicted Prussia to the north. Hence military defeat, occupation by the Prussians, and involuntary incorporation into the North German Confederation came as tremendous psychological and political shocks to the Saxon people. As Reichstag elections were organized for the first …
Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II
This lively and concise book uses a dual approach to introduce students and non-specialists to Wilhelmine Germany (1888-1918). It surveys social, economic, political, cultural and diplomatic developme
Reform, Reaction and Resistance: Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945
German conservatism reconsidered - old problems and new directions, L.E. Jones and J. Retallack the of revival - pietists, aristocrats and the state church in early 19th century Prussia, C. Clark conservatives and the social question in 19th century Prussia, H. Beck Victor Aime Huber and the emergence of social conservatism, W. Schwentker the court Camarilla and the of monarchical restoration in Prussia, D.E. Barclay between economic interests an…
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U. S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U. S. Planters and Prussian Junkers Get access James Retallack James Retallack Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 96–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.1.96 Published: 01 January 1996
Sozialstruktur, politisehe Traditionen und Liberalismus: Eine empirische Längsschnittstudie zur Wahlentwicklung in Deutschland 1871-1933 (Schriften des Zentralinstituts für sozialwissenschaftliche For…
Election Campaigns and Franchise Struggles in Regional Perspective (Historische Kommission zu Berlin, 10-11 June 1994)
Election Campaigns and Franchise Struggles in Regional Perspective (Historische Kommission zu Berlin, 10–11 June 1994) Get access James Retallack James Retallack (The University of Toronto) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.1.70 Published: 01 January 1995
What Is to Be Done?” The Red Specter, Franchise Questions, and the Crisis of Conservative Hegemony in Saxony, 1896–1909
We could be more liberal if we had no social democrats.” This was one axiom of German electoral politics with which the overwhelming mass of non-socialist ( bürgerlich ) German voters agreed unrservedly, wrote Lothar Schücking, a liberal critic of Prussian officialdom, in 1908. Nevertheless, continued Schücking, the aims and ideals of the social democratic movement were completely unfamiliar to most educated Germans. “One knows a few slogans,” wr…
Mapping the Red Threat: The Politics of Exclusion in Leipzig Before 1914
Long before Adolf Hitler’s appearance clouded democracy’s prospects in Germany, election battles had provided a means to disadvantage “enemies of the Reich” in the polling booth. Such battles were waged not only during election campaigns but also when new voting laws were legislated and district boundaries were redrawn. Maps produced during the Imperial era informed voters, statesmen, and social scientists how the principle of the fair and equal …
Conservatives Contra Chancellor: Official Responses to the Spectre of Conservative Demagoguery from Bismarck to Bülow
"Social History with a Vengeance? Some Reactions to H.-U. Wehler's "Das Deutsche Kaiserreich
Conservatives Contra Chancellor: Official Responses to the Spectre of Conservative Demagoguery from Bismarck to Bülow
Anti-Semitism, Conservative Propaganda, and Regional Politics in Late Nineteenth Century Germany
Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany: Recent Studies in Agricultural History . Robert G. Moeller The German Peasantry: Conflict and Community in Rural Society from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Cent…
Charity, Challenge, and Change: Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women's Movement in Germany , by Catherine M. Prelinger
Max Weber and German Politics 1890-1920
Journal Article Max Weber and German Politics 1890–1920, by Wolfgang J. Mommsen (translated by Michael S. Steinberg). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, xxi + 498 pp. $50 Get access James N. Retallack James N. Retallack University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 315–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711600 Published: 01 October 198…
Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935
Abstracts of Papers by James Retallack and Mark Roseman
James Retallack, Mark Roseman; Abstracts of Papers by James Retallack and Mark Roseman, German History, Volume 7, Issue 2, 1 April 1989, Pages 236–240, htt
Forthcoming Events: Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Germany 1890-1939 Regional Conference of the German History Society Toronto, April 1990
Regional Conference of the German History Society Toronto, April 1990
Another Germany: A Reconsideration of the Imperial Era , edited by Jack R. Dukes and Joachim Remak (Westview Special Studies in West European Politics and Society)
Notables of the Right: The Conservative Party and Political Mobilization in Germany, 1876-1918
What Is to Be Done?” The Red Specter, Franchise Questions, and the Crisis of Conservative Hegemony in Saxony, 1896–1909
We could be more liberal if we had no social democrats.” This was one axiom of German electoral politics with which the overwhelming mass of non-socialist ( bürgerlich ) German voters agreed unrservedly, wrote Lothar Schücking, a liberal critic of Prussian officialdom, in 1908. Nevertheless, continued Schücking, the aims and ideals of the social democratic movement were completely unfamiliar to most educated Germans. “One knows a few slogans,” wr…
The Chancellor as Courtier: Bernhard von Bülow and the Governance of Germany, 1900-1909 , by Katherine Anne Lerman
Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
This collection of essays presents the work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany - consider this problem from novel and sometimes surprising viewpoints. The history of elections, narrowly conceived, is abandoned in favor of a broader inquiry into roots of German political loyalties and the…
The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century , edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans
From Pariah to Professional? The Journalist in German Society and Politics, from the Late Enlightenment to the Rise of Hitler
Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives
Election Campaigns and Franchise Struggles in Regional Perspective (Historische Kommission zu Berlin, 10-11 June 1994)
Election Campaigns and Franchise Struggles in Regional Perspective (Historische Kommission zu Berlin, 10–11 June 1994) Get access James Retallack James Retallack (The University of Toronto) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 1995, Pages 70–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.1.70 Published: 01 January 1995
Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II
This lively and concise book uses a dual approach to introduce students and non-specialists to Wilhelmine Germany (1888-1918). It surveys social, economic, political, cultural and diplomatic developme
Reform, Reaction and Resistance: Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945
German conservatism reconsidered - old problems and new directions, L.E. Jones and J. Retallack the of revival - pietists, aristocrats and the state church in early 19th century Prussia, C. Clark conservatives and the social question in 19th century Prussia, H. Beck Victor Aime Huber and the emergence of social conservatism, W. Schwentker the court Camarilla and the of monarchical restoration in Prussia, D.E. Barclay between economic interests an…
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U. S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U. S. Planters and Prussian Junkers Get access James Retallack James Retallack Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 1, January 1996, Pages 96–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.1.96 Published: 01 January 1996
Sozialstruktur, politisehe Traditionen und Liberalismus: Eine empirische Längsschnittstudie zur Wahlentwicklung in Deutschland 1871-1933 (Schriften des Zentralinstituts für sozialwissenschaftliche For…
Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 3: Von der Deutschen Doppelrevolution bis zum Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges, 1849-1914
Modernisierung und Region im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Wahlen, Wahlrecht und politische Kultur
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