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Profile
| Academic position | Emeritus |
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| Research fields | Modern and Contemporary History,Political Science |
| Keywords | Constitutionalism, Elections, Biography, Political Culture, Regionalism |
| Honours and awards | 2022: Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, Uni Toronto 2019: Ehrung als Universitäts-Professor, Universität Toronto 2017: Guggenheim Fellow (USA) 2017: Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Central European History Society 2016: Hans Rosenberg Article Prize, Central European History Society 2015: Killam Fellow (Kanada) 2014: AvH Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Forschungspreis (Wiedereinladung) (Bergische-Uni Wuppertal) 2011: Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 2001: AvH Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Forschungspreis (Uni Göttingen) 1998: AvH / DAAK Trans-Coop Forschungsstipendium 1997: AvH Forschungsstipendium (Wiedereinladung) (FU Berlin) 1993: AvH Forschungsstipendium (FU Berlin) 1978: Rhodes Scholar, Ontario and St. John's, Oxford University : (Auswahl) |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Toronto |
| Institution | University of Toronto |
| Institute | Department of History |
| Homepage | https://retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Peter Steinbach | Fachbereich 15 Politische Wissenschaft, Forschungsstelle Widerstandsgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Bernd Weisbrod | Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen |
| Prof. Dr. Ute Planert | Fachbereich A - Geschichte, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/1993 |
Programme(s)
| 1992 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2001 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor James Retallack is one of the leading Anglo-American scholars in the field of modern German history. The research of the Oxford Rhodes scholar covers a wide range of topics related with the vexing question of the German "Sonderweg". By looking closely at the development of German conservatism in the "Kaiserreich" he established a firm basis for understanding the mobilizing forces of the political mass market for a new brand of middle class conservatives especially ouside Prussia. There, it was not the old "Junker" establishment, but electoral cometition and regional identities which played a key role in shaping the antisemmitic agenda and the "authoritarian consensus", which, as Retallack has shown in the case of Sacony, were the hallmark of popular conservatism. In his new project on regional nationalism in the 19th century he will also look at the generative qualities of German nation building, buth through the discourse of cultural difference rather than the Bismarckian notion of a nation born in blood and iron. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | James Retallack: German Social Democracy Through British Eyes: A Documentary History, 1870-1914. University of Toronto Press, 2021 |
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| 2017 | James Retallack, Ute Planert: Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2017 |
| 2017 | James Retallack: Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Oxford University Press, 2017 |
| 2016 | James Retallack: Mapping the Red Threat: The Politics of Exclusion in Leipzig before 1914. In: Central European History, 2016, 341-382 |
| 2015 | James Retallack: Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. University of Toronto Press, 2015 |
| 2008 | James N. Retallack: Imperial Germany 1871-1918. The Short Oxford History of Germany. Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| 2007 | David Blackbourn, James N. Retallack: Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: Germany-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930. University of Toronto Press, 2007 |
| 2006 | James Retallack: The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination. University of Toronto Press, 2006 |
| 2006 | James Retallack: Zwei Vertreter des preußischen Konservatismus im Spiegel ihres Briefwechsels: Die Heydebrand-Westarp Korrespondenz. In: Wolfram Pyta, Larry Eugene Jones, 'Ich bin der letzte Preuße.' Der politische Lebensweg des konservativen Politikers Kuno Graf von Wesarp (1864-1945). Böhlau, 2006. 33-60 |
| 2005 | James Retallack: 'Something Magical in the Name of Prussia...' British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s. In: Ronald Speirs, John Breuilly, Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 139-154 |
| 2003 | Geoff Eley and James Retallack, eds.: Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 (Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann). Berghahn Books, 2003 |
| 2001 | Thomas Adam and James Retallack: Philanthropy und politische Macht in deutschen Kommunen. In: Thomas Adam and James Retallack, Zwischen Markt und Staat: Stifter und Stiftungen im transatlantischen Vergleich (= Special Double Issue of Comparativ 11 [2001], nos. 5-6). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001. 106-138 |
| 1996 | James Retallack: Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Macmillan, 1996 |
| 1988 | James Retallack: Notables of the Right: The Conservative Party and Political Mobilization in Germany, 1876-1918. Unwin Hyman, 1988 |