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James Retallack

 

University Professor Emeritus

 

 

 

James Retallack, University Professor


 

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General Background

 

Books  

Teaching Interests

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

Current Research Interests

 

Invited Lectures

Graduate Supervisions

 

  Conferences & Symposia

Students’ Honours

 

 

  Links  /  Other Professional Activities

 

 

 

 

email:  james.retallack@utoronto.ca

 

http://retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca

 


 

News

 

Online Lecture November 2023

 

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Description automatically generated with medium confidence“August Bebel, Social Democracy, and the Art of Biography.” Jackman Humanities Institute Alumni Research Lecture Series (15 minutes, YouTube).

 

In 2022–23 I was privileged to be a Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellow, when the Jackman Humanities Institute’s annual theme was “Labour.” Besides co-organizing the international conference that convened in Toronto in May 2023 on “Work, Class, and Social Democracy” (see below), I was asked to deliver an online lecture about my research, which I was happy to do.

 

In this lecture I consider the challenges of writing the biography of a working-class political superstar. August Bebel was leader of the world’s largest socialist party before 1914. The modern medial age had made him into a global celebrity, an “anti-Kaiser.” His origin story as an impoverished child and humble craftsman created a public image of mythical proportions. How best to grapple with that image? Perhaps the biographer should try less to puncture the myth than let out just enough air to settle the man back to earth.

 

 

 

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Published March 2023

 

Das rote Sachsen. Wahlen, Wahlrecht und politische Kultur im Deutschen KaiserreichBook: Das rote Sachsen. Wahlen, Wahlrecht und politische Kultur im Deutschen Kaiserreich. Translated by Manuela Thurner. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2023, paperback, 98.- EUR; special edition published by the Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Dresden, 2023, Pp. xiii, 904. 43 illustrations, 46 tables, 12 maps. Review (in German) here.

 

Synopsis: Electoral politics in Imperial Germany 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 the Social Democrats after 1871, they battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Das rote Sachsen devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. It also illustrates how bourgeois and aristocratic Germans grew to fear left-wing “terrorism” in the age of mass politics. Certainly twists and turns lay ahead, yet that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Published Online March 2023

 

Forging an Empire: Bismarckian GermanyOnline digital anthology: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (18661890) / Reichsgründung: Bismarcks Deutschland (18661890), ed. James Retallack, 2nd revised and expanded edition. Published online in English and German as volume 4 of the 10-volume digital history anthology, German History in Documents and Images / Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. Approx. 30% new content in 2nd edition.

 

Synopsis: The documents and images in this Open Access online collection of primary sources – presented on mirror sites in German and English – allow us to look beneath the surface calm of Bismarckian Germany. What we see there is a picture shot through with contradictions, conflicts, and crises. This revised 2nd edition advances the hypothesis that Imperial Germany’s highly dynamic economy, society, and culture were embedded within an authoritarian political system. That system was also dynamic, not sclerotic. Yet, many of its bourgeois defenders tended to prize stability and prestige over the principles of equity, inclusiveness, and fairness. If portents of a calamitous future tempt us to read history backwards, we should pause for a moment and attune ourselves to the views of Germans at the time, who did not know how the story would end. These documents and images allow readers to do just that.  (Legacy site for 1st edition, 2007)

 

 

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Published 2022

 

German Social Democracy through British EyesBook: German Social Democracy through British Eyes: A Documentary History, 18701914.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. Pp. xxii, 392, 30 illustrations, 15 tables, 2 maps. Simultaneous cloth, paperback, EPub, and PDF editions. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-48-752748-8  (review in the Journal of Modern History). (Book launch webcast here)

 

Synopsis: On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. This book examines the SPD’s rise using British diplomatic reports from Saxony, the third-largest federal state in Imperial Germany and the cradle of the socialist movement in that country.  Rather than focusing on the Anglo-German antagonism leading to the First World War, it peers into the everyday struggles of German workers to build a political movement and emancipate themselves from the worst features of a modern capitalist system: exploitation, poverty, and injustice. The documents raise the question of how people from one nation view people from another nation. They also illuminate political systems, election practices, and anti-democratic strategies at the local and regional levels, allowing readers to test hypotheses derived only from national-level studies. This collection of primary sources shows why, despite the inhospitable environment of German authoritarianism, Saxony and Germany were among the most important incubators of socialism. Advance Praise here.

 

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General Background

 

 

After attending Trent University in Peterborough, I studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received my D.Phil. in 1983. I joined the University of Toronto in 1987, and was promoted to the rank of University Professor in 2019. I served as chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures from 1999 to 2002.

 

My work has been assisted by research grants, fellowships, and prizes from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German-American Academic Council Foundation, the Killam Program at the Canada Council for the Arts, the Connaught Program and the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

 

In 1993–94 I spent a year with my family at the Free University Berlin as a Humboldt Research Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Political Science department. I also held a Visiting Professorship in History at the University of Göttingen in 2002–03 when I was awarded the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Research Prize by the Humboldt Foundation, and I was a Visiting Scholar at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal when my prize was renewed in 2014. I became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011. See below for a number of international conferences and workshops I have organized.

 

Even though I retired from the University of Toronto in June 2024, I am affiliated with the following units:

 

o   University Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

o   Senior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

o   Affiliated Faculty, Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

o   Associate Faculty Member, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies

 

Current professional positions (selection):

 

o   General Editor, Oxford Studies in Modern European History, Oxford University Press

o   General Editor, German and European Studies, University of Toronto Press

o   Member, Editorial Board, German History in Documents and Images, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC

o   Member, Editorial Advisory Board, German History, journal of the German History Society, UK

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Current Research and Writing Interests

 

 

My research interests include German regional history, nationalism, antisemitism, socialism, electoral politics, biography, and historiography. I am currently writing a full-scale biography of the German Social Democratic leader August Bebel:

 

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Description automatically generated with medium confidenceBook: August Bebel: A Life for Social Democracy. Planned biography, supported by Killam and Guggenheim Research Fellowships, a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, a SSHRC Insight Grant, and a 2022–23 Faculty Research Fellowship from the Jackman Humanities Institute. (175,000 words.) In progress.

 

Synopsis: August Bebel (1840-1913) was the celebrated leader of the first million-member party in Germany, Europe, and the world. How did workers come to revere a man who began adult life in the 1860s as an itinerant journeyman turner producing doorknobs and window-pulls from buffalo horn but by 1900 exercised unassailable authority within Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD)? This book asks how German workers found Bebel, embraced him as their emperor (Arbeiterkaiser), and came to put their faith in Social Democracy’s message. Conversely, it examines middle- and upper-class Germans who believed instinctively that Bebel and his followers sought the total overthrow of the existing state and society and hence ascribed them pariah status within Germany’s political system. It also asks how much celebrity really mattered in the age of mass politics, mass culture, and the mass press.  (Image: undated photograph, ca. 1880, New York Public Library, Digital Collections, public domain.)  On this project, view my November 2023 online lecture: “August Bebel, Social Democracy, and the Art of Biography.”

 

 

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Description automatically generatedEssay: “August Bebel as Pétroleuse, Vesuvius, Moses: Political Iconographies of Celebrity,” presented at the conference “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913),” Toronto, May 2023. Unpublished.

 

In this essay I explore graphical depictions of the socialist leader August Bebel in the Social Democratic and middle-class satirical magazines of his age. Exploring the grammar of visual communication through satirical caricatures, I ask what, if anything, they might tell us about Bebel, his party, and the emergence of mass politics, mass culture, and the mass media in Germany before 1914. In an age of media politicians and “ocular democracy,” was the “voice of the people” expressed in part through the “eyes of the people”? By considering the way Bebel’s image was deployed and understood by artists, writers, and readers of these magazines, and by his fellow politicians, I follow the lead of Lucy Riall, whose biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi illustrated how political celebrity can be manufactured and manipulated—with and without the active participation of the celebrant. (Image: August Bebel caricatured in the Humoristische Blätter (Vienna), 1877. Source: Ilse Fischer and Werner Krause, eds, August Bebel 1840-1913 (Cologne, 1988), 58.)

 

 

 

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"La greve des mineurs du Pas-de-Calais," Le Petit Journal, Supplement, 1 April 1906. Wikimedia Commons.Conference: Co-convenor of the conference “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913).” On May 25–27, 2023, the DAAD/University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, convened an international conference at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Official partners were the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Bonn. Conference report by Steven McClellan here.

 

A special issue of selected conference papers will be published as “Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence,” edited by Simone Lässig, James Retallack, and Swen Steinberg, in the German Historical Institute Bulletin, Issue 74, Fall 2024. In press.

 

 


 

Graduate Supervisions

 

As well as supervising research projects and comprehensive field preparations, I have worked with most of the students and postdoctoral fellows listed below: organizing workshops, symposia, and conferences, preparing monographs and co-edited volumes for publication, and conducting field research in German archives.

 

 

Current Ph.D. Dissertation Supervision

 

 

1.    Lief Dubin, “Icons and Antonyms of the Nation in German Satirical Cartoons, 1848–1918” (entered PhD program 2019, ABD)

 

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Completed PhD Dissertations Supervised  (sole supervisor)

 

1.    Eriks Bredovskis, “Columbia’s Shadow: The Pacific Northwest and the German Imagination, 1880–1914.” PhD diss. 2023 (Currently: Independent scholar and president, CUPE 3092, Toronto)

 

2. Michael Weaver, “Political Friendship: Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German NationState, 18481866,” PhD diss. 2022, published (Open Access) as Political Friendship: Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 18481866 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2024). (Currently: Quality review editor, Control Risks, Washington, DC).

 

3. Gavin J. Wiens, “In the Service of Kaiser and King: State Sovereignty, Nation-Building, and the Imperial German Army, 1866-1918.” PhD diss. 2019, published as The Imperial German Army between Kaiser and King: Monarchy, Nation-Building, and War, 1866-1918 (Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). (Currently: Independent scholar, Toronto).

 

4. Anthony Cantor, “Our Conservatories? Music Education, Social Identities and Cultural Politics in Germany and Austria, 1840-1933.” PhD diss. 2015 (Currently: Producer/Director, Efran Films, Toronto).

 

5. Geoffrey Hamm, “British Intelligence and Turkish Arabia: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Empire, 1898-1918.” PhD diss. 2012. (Currently: Scientific Publications Coordinator, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA).

 

6. Deborah J. Neill, “Transnationalism in the Colonies: Cooperation, Rivalry, and Race in German and French Tropical Medicine, 1880-1930,” PhD Diss. 2005, published as Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012). (Currently: Associate Professor of History, York University, Toronto).

 

7. Lisa M. Todd, “Sexual Treason: State Surveillance of Infidelity and Immorality in World War I Germany,” PhD Diss. 2005, published as Sexual Treason in Germany During the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). (Currently: Professor of History and Chair, Department of History and Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB.)

 

8. Erwin D. Fink, “Region and Nation in Early Imperial Germany: Transformations of Popular Allegiances and Political Culture in the Period of Nation Building,” PhD Diss. 2004. (Currently: owner/operator, TransMedia Translations, Freiburg i. Br.)

 

9. Richard Steigmann-Gall, “The Holy Reich: Religious Dimensions of Nazi Ideology, 1919-1945,” PhD Diss. 1999, published as The Holy Reich. Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). (Currently: Associate Professor of History, Kent State University, OH.)

 

10. Marline Otte, “Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1930,” PhD Diss. 1999, published as Jewish Identities in German Popular Entertainment, 1890-1933 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). (Currently: Associate Professor of History, Tulane University, LA.)

 

11. Marven H. Krug, “Civil Liberties in Imperial Germany,” PhD Diss. 1995. (Currently: Senior Product Manager, Spryker, Berlin.)

 

12. Thomas M. Bredohl, “Parishioners, Priests and Politicians: The Centre Party in the Rhineland, 1890-1914,” PhD Diss. 1995, published as: Class and Religious Identity: The Rhenish Center Party in Wilhelmine  Germany (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000). (Currently: Professor Emeritus of History, University of Regina, SK.)

 

 

Students’ Honours  (graduate only, selection)

 

·       Deborah J. Neill, 2006, John Bullen Prize for the Best Dissertation written at a Canadian University, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the PhD. dissertation entitled “Transnationalism in the Colonies: Cooperation, Rivalry, and Race in German and French Tropical Medicine, 1880-1930.”

 

·       Marven H. Krug, 1996, John Bullen Prize for the Best Dissertation written at a Canadian University, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the PhD. dissertation entitled “Civil Liberties in Imperial Germany.”

 

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Publications

A. Book-length Works   (sole author / editor / co-editor / online)

 

1.     “Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence,” edited by Simone Lässig, James Retallack, and Swen Steinberg. Forthcoming in the German Historical Institute Bulletin, Issue 74, Fall 2024 (45,000 words). In press.

 

2.     James Retallack, Der rote Sachsen. Wahlen, Wahlrecht, und politische Kultur im Deutschen Kaiserreich. Translated by Manuela Thurner. (Revised and expanded translation of 4. below.) Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2023. Paperback 98.- Euro. ISBN: 978-3-96023-472-2. Special edition co-published Dresden: Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2023, gratis. Pp. xiii, 904, 43 illustrations, 46 tables, 12 maps. (Review)

 

3.     Open access online digital anthology. Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany (1866-1890) / Reichsgründung: Bismarcks Deutschland (1866-1890), edited by James Retallack. 2nd revised and expanded edition, 2023. Published in English and German as Volume 4 of German History in Documents and Images / Deutsche Geschichte in Dokumenten und Bildern. German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2nd edition includes approximately 35 per cent new content. (Legacy site for 1st edition, 2007.)

 

4.     James Retallack, German Social Democracy through British Eyes: A Documentary History, 1870-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. Pp. xxii, 392, 30 illustrations, 15 tables, 2 maps. Simultaneous cloth, paperback, EPub, and PDF editions. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-48-752748-8. (Opinion)  (Book launch webcast here)  (New Books Network podcast here.)

 

5.     James Retallack, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xxiv, 698, incl. 16 colour plates, 32 illustrations, 45 tables, 7 maps. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-19-966878-6, published at Oxford Scholarship Online 2017, eBook ISBN: 978-019-177904-6. Paperback 2020, ISBN: 978-0-19-886656-5. Awarded the 2017 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for the best book in central European history published by a resident of North America, by the Central European History Society of the American Historical Association (laudatio). Forthcoming in a revised German edition, 2022. (Description) (Overview and Table of Contents) (New Books Network Interview)  (Opinion)

 

6.     Open access online digital anthology. Online Supplement to Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 18601918, edited by James Retallack. Creative Commons International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Published online 2017, always under revision. Approximately 335 printed pages, 1.9 GB of material. Included in The German Studies Collaboratory and its Digital Hub.

 

7.     Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War. Publications of the German Historical Institute, ed. Ute Planert and James Retallack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 377, incl. 4 illustrations. Cloth and eBook ISBN: 978-1-107-16574-8.) Available through Cambridge Core. (Buy) (Description and Table of Contents). Paperback 2020. ISBN: 978-1-316-61708-3.

 

8.     James Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways (German and European Studies). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Cloth, paperback, ePub. Pp. xviii, 332, 25 illust.  (Opinion)

 

9.     Imperial Germany 1871-1918. (Short Oxford History of Germany), edited by James Retallack. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Cloth and paperback, 2008, Oxford Scholarship Online. Paperback, xv, 328. (UK) (US) (Canada) (Dustjacket) (Table of Contents) (Read Inside: Introduction; Looking forward)  (Opinion)

 

10. Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930, edited by David Blackbourn and James Retallack (German and European Studies). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. Cloth 2007, paperback, ePub 2014. Pp. vii, 268.  (Opinion) (Dustjacket)

 

11.  James Retallack, The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination (German and European Studies). Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. Cloth and paperback 2006. Pp. xiv, 430, 30 halftones. (20% Discount Flyer) (Cover) (Opinion) (Look Inside: “Introduction” )

 

12. Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 (Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann), edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Cloth 2003, paperback 2004. Pp. x, 269. (Abstract) (Opinion) (Cover)

 

13.   Zwischen Markt und Staat. Stifter und Stiftungen im transatlantischen Vergleich [Between Market and State: Philanthropists and Foundations in Transatlantic Comparison], edited by Thomas Adam and James Retallack (Special Double Issue of Comparativ 11 [2001], nos. 5-6). Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001. Paperback. Pp. 190.

 

14.   Sachsen in Deutschland. Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft 1830-1918, edited by James Retallack (Studien zur Regionalgeschichte, Bd. 14) [Saxony in Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1830-1918]. Bielefeld and Gütersloh: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2000. Special edition co-published Dresden: Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2000. Paperback. Pp. 292.  (Opinion) (Cover)

 

15.   Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933, edited by James Retallack (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Cloth, 2000. Pp. xxi, 392. (Abstract) (Opinion) (Dustjacket)

 

16.   Saxon Signposts, edited by James Retallack (Special Issue of German History 17, no. 4, 1999). London: Edward Arnold Inc., 1999. Paperback. Pp. i, 87. (Abstract)

 

17.   James Retallack, Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Studies in European History). Basingstoke, London: Macmillan Press Ltd. (now Palgrave Macmillan), 1996. Co-published New York: St. Martins Press, 1996. Available through SpringerLink. Paperback, pp. xvi, 133. (Abstract) (Opinion) (Cover)

 

James Retallack, 想象欧洲丛书:威廉二世代的德  (Imagine Europe Series). (Chinese edition of 16 above) Beijing: Peking University Press, 2013. Paperback. Pp. ii, 197. ISBN 978-7301224977 (Chinese edition cover) (Amazon.com)

 

18.   Modernisierung und Region im wilhelminischen Deutschland: Wahlen, Wahlrecht und Politische Kultur. [Modernization and Region in Wilhelmine Germany: Elections, Suffrage, and Political Culture], ed. Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl, and James Retallack. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1995; 2nd rev. ed. 1998. Copublished Dresden: Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1995, 1998. Paperback. Pp. 180. (Opinion) (Cover)

 

19.   Between Reform, Reaction, and Resistance: Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945, ed. Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack. Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg Publishers, Inc. Cloth, 1993. Pp. vii, 530. Available through Bloomsbury Publishing. (Opinion) (Cover)

 

20.   Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives, edited by Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack. (Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC). New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cloth 1992. Pp. xiii, 418. Paperback 2002, ISBN: 9780521429122. Available through Cambridge Core. (Opinion) (Look inside: Table of Contents and Introduction)

 

21.   James N. Retallack, Notables of the Right. The Conservative Party and Political Mobilization in Germany, 1876-1918. London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988. Cloth. Pp. xvi, 302. (Amazon.com) (Abstract) (Opinion) (Dustjacket)

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Publications

 

B. Essays in Scholarly Journals and Multi-Authored Collections (20052024, with selected online publications)

 

 

·       “Bebel as Bürger.” Forthcoming in The Paths of German History from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of David Blackbourn, edited by Andreas Daum et al., Bloomsbury, 2025. In progress.

 

·       “Introduction: Class, Democracy, and Violence,” by Simone Lässig, James Retallack, and Swen Steinberg. Forthcoming in “Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence,” ed. idem, in the German Historical Institute Bulletin, Issue 74, Fall 2024. In press.

 

·       August Bebel. Ein Sozialdemokrat gegen Eroberungskrieg und ‚Verpreußung‘.“ Commissioned chapter for the exhibition catalogue Krieg Macht Nation. Wie das deutsche Kaiserreich entstand, edited by Gerhard Bauer, Katja Protte, Armin Wagner, and the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Dresden: Sandstein Verlag, 2020), 58-65. (German) (English Draft)

 

·       ‚Rotes Königreich‘ oder ‚Hort des Konservatismus‘? Sachsen im späten Kaiserreich,“ in Der gespaltene Freistaat. Neue Perspektiven auf die sächsische Geschichte 19181933, edited by Konstantin Hermann, Mike Schmeitzner, and Swen Steinberg (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2019), 27-41. (German) (English Draft)

 

·       August Bebel: A Life for Social Justice and Democratic Reform,Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 58 (2018): 145-161.

 

 

·       The Non-Voter: Rethinking the Category,” co-authored with Marc-André Dufour, in Parlamentarismuskritik und Antiparlamentarismus in Europa, edited by Marie-Luise Recker and Andreas Schulz (Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 2018), 235-252.

 

 

·   After the German Civil War of 1866: Building the State, Embracing the Nation, in Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War, edited by Ute Planert and James Retallack (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 198-215.

 

·   Mapping the Red Threat: The Politics of Exclusion in Leipzig before 1914,Central European History 49, nos. 3/4 (December 2016): 341-82. Awarded the 2016 Hans Rosenberg Article Prize – since renamed the Annelise Thimme Article Prize – by the Central European History Society of the American Historical Association. (laudatio)

 

·   The GSA and Canada,” invited essay for 40 Years of the German Studies Association, edited by Andreas Daum, Sabine Hake, and Brad Prager, Special Issue of German Studies Review 39, no. 3 (September 2016): 685-6.

 

·   “Reform or Revolution? British Envoys to Germany and the Culture of Diplomacy, 18161905,” German History, vol. 31, no. 4 (2013), pp. 550-578. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Digital History Anthologies on the Web: German History in Documents and Images,” co-authored with Kelly McCullough, Central European History 46, no. 2 (2013), pp. 346-361. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   “Get Out the Vote! Elections without Democracy in Imperial Germany,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (Issue 51, Fall 2012), pp. 23-38. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Forum participant, Modern German History and the Handbook,” German History, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012), pp. 247-264.

 

·   To My Loyal Saxons! King Johann in Exile, 1866,” in Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médici to Wilhelm II, edited by Torsten Riotte and Philipp Mansel. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 279-304. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   The Authoritarian State and the Political Mass Market,” in Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives, edited by Sven Oliver Müller und Cornelius Torp. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011, pp. 83-96. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Bismarck, Engels, and The Role of Force in History. Friedrich Engels, Die Rolle der Gewalt in der Geschichte,“ in Gewalt und Gesellschaft. Klassiker modernen Denkens neu gelesen, edited by Uffa Jensen, Habbo Knoch, Daniel Morat, Miriam Rürup, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011, pp. 47-56. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Obrigkeitsstaat und politischer Massenmarkt,“ in Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse, edited by Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, pp. 121-135.

 

·   Introduction,” in Imperial Germany 1871-1918, ed. Retallack (2008), pp. 1-17.

 

·   Looking Forward,” in Imperial Germany 1871-1918, ed. Retallack (2008), pp. 264-275.

 

·   Introduction” (coauthored with David Blackbourn), in Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place, ed. Blackbourn and Retallack (2007), pp. 3-35.

 

·   “‘Native Son’: Julian Hawthorne’s Saxon Studies,” in Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place, ed. Blackbourn and Retallack (2007), pp. 76-98. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Zwei Vertreter des preußischen Konservatismus im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels: Die Heydebrand-Westarp-Korrespondenz,“ in Ich bin der letzte Preuße. Der politische Lebensweg des konservativen Politikers Kuno Graf von Westarp, edited by Larry Eugene Jones and Wolfram Pyta (Stuttgarter Historische Forschungen), Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2006, pp. 33-60. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Something Magical in the Name of Prussia British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s,” in Germany’s Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses (New Perspectives in German Studies), edited by Ronald Speirs and John Breuilly. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2005, pp. 139-154.

 

 

·   Wahlrechtskämpfe in Sachsen nach 1896,“ Dresdner Hefte 22, no. 4 (Heft 80) (2004), Themenheft: Das Rote Königreich und sein Monarch, pp. 13-24.

 

 

·   Ideas into Politics: Meanings of Stasis in Wilhelmine Germany,” in Wilhelminism and Its Legacies, ed. Eley and Retallack (2003), pp. 235-252.

 

 

·   Philanthropy und politische Macht in deutschen Kommunen” [Philanthropy and Political Power in German Cities], in Zwischen Markt und Staat, edited by Thomas Adam and James Retallack, Special double Issue of Comparativ 11, nos. 5/6 (2001): 108-38.

 

·   “Demagogentum, Populismus, Volkstümlichkeit. Überlegungen zur Popularitätshascherei’ auf dem politischen Massenmarkt des Kaiserreichs” [Demagoguery, Populism, Popularity: Reflec­tions on ‘Fishing for Popularity’ in the Political Mass Market of Imperial Germany], Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissen­schaft 48, no. 4 (2000): 309-325.

 

 

·   Introduction. Locating Saxony in the Landscape of German Regional History,” in Saxony in German History, ed. Retallack (2000), pp. 1-30.

 

 

·   Conservatives and Antisemites in Baden and Saxony,” in Saxon Signposts, ed. Retallack (1999), pp. 507-526.

 

 

·   Society and Politics in Saxony in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Reflections on Recent Research,” in Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 38 (1998): 396-457.

·   ‘Why Can’t a Saxon be More Like a Prussian?’ Regional Identities and the Birth of Modern Political Culture in Germany, 1866-67,” Canadian Journal of History 32 (1997), pp. 26-55.

·   Election Campaigns and Franchise Struggles in Regional Perspective,” German History 13, no. 1 (1995): 70-79.

·   From Pariah to Professional? The Journalist in German Society and Politics, from the Late Enlightenment to the Rise of Hitler,” German Studies Review 16 (1993), pp. 175-223.

·   Anti-Socialism and Electoral Politics in Regional Perspective: the Kingdom of Saxony,” in Jones and Retallack, eds., Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany (1992), pp. 49-91.

·   ‘What is to Be Done?’ The Red Specter, Franchise Questions, and the Crisis of Conservative Hegemony in Saxony, 1896-1909,” Central European History 23 (December 1990), pp. 271-312 [published 1992].

·   Conservatives contra Chancellor: Official Responses to the Spectre of Conservative Demagoguery from Bismarck to Bülow,” Canadian Journal of History 20 (August 1985), pp. 203-236.

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Keynote Addresses, Invited Lectures, Interviews, Commentaries, Conference and Workshop Participation (2009–2023)

 

 

·      Online lecture:  “August Bebel, Social Democracy, and the Art of Biography” (15 minutes with transcript). In the Jackman Humanities Institute Alumni Research Lecture Series, November 2023.

 

·      Roundtable Comment, “August Bebel and German Social Democracy,” at the conference “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913),” Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 27 May 2023.

 

·       Invited speaker, “Bebel as Pétroleuse, Vesuvius, Moses: Political Iconographies of Celebrity,” at the conference “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913),” Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 26 May 2023.

 

·      Virtual double book launch and podium discussion (in German) from the Universität Bonn, co-hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation: “Angst vor der Revolution? Sozialprotest im Deutschen Kaiserreich aus der Perspektive britischer und deutscher Eliten.” With Christine Krüger (Bonn), Ute Daniel (Braunschweig), and Amerigo Caruso (Bonn), 13 September 2022.

 

·      Virtual book launch and public discussion, German Social Democracy through British Eyes by James Retallack, with Doris Bergen, Andrew Bonnell, and Molly Robson, hosted by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Munk School of Global Affairs, supported by the Intellectual Community Committee, Department of History, University of Toronto, 13 April 2022. Webcast here.

 

·      Invited speaker, online public discussion, “Der ‘Eiserne Kanzler’ als schwieriges Erbe. Ein Gespräch über Bismarck, Bismarck-Kult und uns,” sponsored by the Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung and Denk Mal Fort! e.v. Die Erinnerungswerkstatt Dresden, 8 March 2022.

 

·      Invited participant, digital conference, “Politikerinnen in der Weimarer Republik – mehr als eine Spurensuch?”, sponsored by the Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der Politischen Parteien, and the Archiv der Deutschen Frauenbewegung, Bonn, 11-12 November 2021.

 

·      Participant, digital Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, 30 Sept.–3 Oct., 2021.

 

·      Invited author and discussant, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 18601918, digital research colloquium, sponsored by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History in collaboration with the Chair of Saxon State History, Technische Universität Dresden, and the Saxon State Office for Political Education, 15 June 2021.

 

·      Invited participant, digital conference, “Kohäsionskräfte in der deutschen Sozialdemokratie vor 1914“ [Forces of Cohesion in German Social Democracy before 1914], Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 18-19 February 2021.

 

·   Celebrant and Q&A discussant, digital award ceremony, Distinguished Alumni Award (2019), Trent University, Peterborough, 11 February 2021.

 

·   Invited discussant, digital Annual Meeting of the Central European History Society, 16 January 2021 (as chair of the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize committee).

 

·      Participant, digital Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, 14 October 2020.

 

·      Digital interview, “Stimmen der Kooperationspartner des DHI Washington,” with Nora Hilgert, Head of Strategy & Communications, German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, DC, for the Evaluation Committee of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Max Weber Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 18 March 2020.

 

·      Invited discussant and moderator (Session 1) at the symposium, “Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany,” Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 8-9 March 2020.

 

·   Invited speaker, Roundtable 1, “German History and Transatlantic Crossings,” at “DB70. A Conference in Honor of David Blackbourn,” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 8-9 November 2019.

 

·   Invited paper, “Abusive Relationship? Socialists and Their Enemies in Imperial Germany,” delivered at the conference, “Invectivity and Democracy: A Powerful Tool to Destroy, Reform and Revitalize Political Order / Democracy,” Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 2021 June 2019.

 

·   Invited paper, “Feeling Unsafe: The German Bourgeoisie and the Labour Movement, 1848-1933,” delivered at the workshop, “Feeling Safe: Exploring Innovative Research Approaches to the Emotional Underpinnings of Security,” Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 1112 June 2019.

 

·   Interview, “U of T historian honoured,” for Arts & Science News, 24 January 2019.

 

·   Interview, “Red Saxony,” for New Books Network (German Studies) (60-minute podcast), interviewed by J. Ryan Stackhouse, Ottawa, 22 May 2018, online 12 June 2018.

 

·   Keynote Address, “August Bebel: A Life for Social Democracy,” at the conference “Practising Democracy: Arenas, Processes, and Ruptures of Political Participation in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th Centuries.” Public lecture in the series Gesprächskreis Geschichte, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin, 9 November 2017. (Poster) (Photos)

 

·   Interview, “The GHI at 30 (Anniversary Video),” by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2017: https://vimeo.com/238113559.

 

·   2016 Jacob-&-Wilhelm-Grimm Lecture, “Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of Exclusion in Germany before Hitler.” Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, 25 October 2016. (Webcast) (Event Page) (Poster)

 

·   “August Bebel, Celebrity, and the Pitfalls of Biography.” Conference paper as part of the panel, „Leben Schreiben: Historische Biographien als Impulsegeber für die Geschichtswissenschaft?“ [Writing Lives: Do Historical Biographies Challenge the Practice of History?], Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, San Diego, 29 September - 2 October 2016.

 

·   “A Time in Between: The Strange Survival of Monarchical Saxony, 1866.” Conferences paper presented at the 2016 Humboldt Kolleg, “Time.” Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 6 May 2016.

 

·   “Finding the Workers’ Emperor: August Bebel and Social Democracy in the World.” Paper presented at the workshop “Challenges of Writing Biography Today.” Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 5 May 2016.

 

·   “Reflections” at book launch of James Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. Sponsored by the DAAD / University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of History. Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 23 October 2015.

 

·     Interview: „Preisgekrönte Geschichtsforschung: DAAD-Alumnus James Retallack in Gespräch.“ DAAD Aktuell, interviewed by Christine Mattauch, 21 August 2015.

 

·   Invited paper, “The Non-Voter: Rethinking the Category,” delivered at the conference, “Criticism of Parliamentarism and Anti-Parliamentarism in Europe since 1789,” 5th EuParl.net Conference sponsored by the European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History and the Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien (KGParl), Berlin, 7-8 May 2015 (revised book chapter published 2018).

 

·   Invited participant, Final Roundtable, “Looking Back into the Future,” at the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni Conference, “Migration and Multiculturalism in Germany and Canada,” Toronto, 1-2 May 2015.

 

·   Invited lecture, “Annihilating the Red Spectre: Suffrage Reforms in the Kaiserreich,” Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Historisches Seminar, 14 October 2014.

 

·   Moderator, Roundtable Session, “Frank Trommler’s Weltmacht ohne Kompass,” at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, 18-21 September 2014.

                     

·   Invited Moderator and Commentator, Session I, “The Europeans,” at the conference “1914-1918: The Making of the Modern World,” Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 30 July 2014.

 

·   Invited Participant, 110th Rhodes Anniversary, University of Oxford, 18-21 September 2013.

 

·   Moderator and Discussant, Session VI, Closing Roundtable, at the conference, “Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economies, and International Relations, from the 18th to the 20th Century,” University of Toronto, 3-4 May 2013.

 

·   Invited Discussant at the conference “The Second Generation: German Émigré Historians in the Transatlantic World, 1945 to the Present,” and invitee to “The GHI at 25: A Celebration,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 17-19 May 2012.

 

·   Invited public lecture, “Voters without Democracy: Elections in Imperial Germany,” in the lecture series “Get Out the Vote! Mobilization, Media, and Money,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 12 April 2012.

 

·   Principal session organizer, “Society and Democracy in Germany: Why Dahrendorf Still Matters,” and paper giver, “Democratization and German Society: Why the Fluchtpunkt of 1933 Still Matters,” German Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Louisville, 24 September 2011. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Invited lecture, “Democracy in Disappearing Ink. Suffrage Reform as coup d’état: Germany in the 1890s,” presented at the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 15 April 2011. (Revised and expanded version in Retallack, Germany’s Second Reich, 2015).

 

·   Invited seminar presentation, “The German Right: Personal and Historiographical Reflections,” Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 15 April 2011.

 

·   Invited seminar presentation, “German Antisemitism, from the Nineteenth Century to the Visual Turn,” Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, 17 March 2011.

 

·   Invited speaker (with H.W. Smith, Vanderbilt), “Continuities in German History: A Public Discussion,” Department of History and Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, York University, Toronto, 11 February 2011.

 

·   Roundtable Organizer and Discussant, “German History in Documents and Images, 1500-2006: A New Online Resource” …

·       at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, 7-10 January 2010, and

·       at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, 8-11 October 2009.

 

·   Invited speaker, “German Civil Wars: Nationhood, Memory, and the Traumas of Defeat,” at the conference “Moving On: Memory and Trauma in History,” Tulane University, New Orleans, 21-24 October 2009.

 

·   Roundtable Participant, “In Honor of Roger Chickering (3): The Total History of Total War, A Book Discussion,” at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC, 8-11 October 2009.

 

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Conferences, Symposia, Workshops Organized   (1990–2023)

 

 

1.    Co-convenor (with Simone Lässig and Swen Steinburg, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.), “Work, Class, and Social Democracy in the Global Age of August Bebel (1840-1913),” at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 25-27 May 2023. Official Partners: the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn, and the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University, Bochum. Also supported by the DAAD / University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, the Office of the Vice-President, Research, and the Jackman Humanities Institute, at the University of Toronto; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Program here. Conference report by Steven McClellan here. Conference proceedings (selection) published as “Forum: European and Global Perspectives on Social Democracy and State Violence,” German Historical Institute Bulletin, Issue 74, Fall 2024, co-edited by Simone Lässig, James Retallack, and Swen Steinberg. In press.

 

2.    Convener, “Challenges of Writing Biography Today: A Workshop,” with contributions from Simone Lässig (Washington DC), Volker R. Berghahn (Columbia), David Wilson (Toronto), and James Retallack. Sponsored by the DAAD / University of Toronto Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of History. Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 5 May 2016.

 

3.    Co-convener (with Ute Planert), “Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, Economies, and International Relations, from the 18th to the 20th Century,” Department of History, University of Toronto, 3-4 May 2013. Sponsored by the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, DC, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), New York, and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Conference Report by Rebecca Carter-Chand and Gavin Wiens on H-Soz-u-Kult. Conference proceedings published as Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years War to the Cold War (Publications of the German Historical Institute), eds. Ute Planert and James Retallack. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

 

4.    Co-convener (with Robert Beachy), “Civil Wars, Nation-Building, and Historical Memory in Global Perspective: Problems of Interpretation,” a workshop in the Department of History, University of Toronto, 8 April 2011.

 

5.    Co-convener (with David Blackbourn), “Localism, Landscape, and Hybrid Identities in Imperial Germany,” a conference at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 12-14 May 2005. Conference proceedings published as Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place, eds. David Blackbourn and James Retallack (2007, pb. ed. 2015).

 

6.    Principal Organizer, “Making Germany: Nationalist Thought and Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century,” a symposium at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 16 April 2004.

 

7.    Principal Organizer, “Local History as Total History,” a workshop at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 25 February 2002. Conference Report by Deborah Neill and Lisa M. Todd in German History 20, no. 3 (July 2002): 373-78.

 

8.    Co-convener (with Thomas Adam, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Andreas Daum), “Philanthropy, Patronage, and Urban Politics: Transatlantic Transfers between Europe and North America in the 19th and Early 20th Century,” a conference at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 3–5 May 2001. (Co-Sponsor: German Historical Institute, Washington DC) Conference proceedings published in German as Zwischen Markt und Staat, eds. Thomas Adam and James Retallack (2001), and in English as Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society, ed. Thomas Adam (2004).

 

9.    Co-convener (with Peter Steinbach), “Wahlkultur und Regionalismus in Deutschland, 1830–1933” [Electoral Culture and Regionalism in Germany, 1830-1933], a workshop at the Otto-Suhr-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 8 February 2001.

 

10.   Principal Organizer, “From Emancipation to Restitution: Jews in German Society and Politics, 1800–2000,” a symposium at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 12 September 2000.

 

11.  Co-convener (with the German Historical Institute, Washington DC), “Memory, Democracy, and the Mediated Nation: Political Cultures and Regional Identities in Germany, 1848-1998,” a conference at the University of Toronto, 18–20 September 1998. Conference proceedings published in English as Saxony in German History, ed. James Retallack (2000) and as Saxon Signposts, ed. James Retallack (1999), and in German as Sachsen in Deutschland, ed. James Retallack (2000).

 

12.  Co-convener (with Peter Steinbach and Jürgen Schmädeke), „Wahl- und Wahlrechtskämpfe im regionalen Vergleich“ [Election and Suffrage Struggles in Regional Comparison], a workshop at the Historische Kommission zu Berlin, 1011 June 1994. Conference proceedings published as Modernisierung und Region im wilhelminischen Deutschland, eds. Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl, and James Retallack (1995, 2nd ed. 1998).

 

13.  Co-convener (with the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC), “Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Germany, 1890–1945: New Perspectives,” a conference at the University of Toronto, 20–22 April 1990. Conference proceedings published as Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Germany: New Perspectives, eds. Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack (1992).

 

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Links

 

University of Toronto

Department of History

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Joint Initiative in German and European Studies (JIGES)

Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES)

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History

Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (CJS)

 

German Studies

Central European History Society (CEHS)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

German and European Studies (University of Toronto Press)

German Historical Institute (GHI), London

German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, DC

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI)

German History Society, UK (GHS)

German Labour History Association (GLHA)

German Studies Association (GSA)

 

Other

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

American Historical Association (AHA)

August Bebel Institute (ABI)

Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada

Canadian Association of Rhodes Scholars (CARS)

Canadian Historical Association (CHA)

Gerda Henkel Foundation

Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)

Humboldt Association of Canada

Killam Program

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Oxford Studies in Modern European History (OSMEH)

Rhodes Connect

Royal Society of Canada (RSC)

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Other Professional Activities, Appointments, and Affiliations

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