Prof. Dr. James Retallack
Professor of History and German Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1983

Select Publications:

Wahlpolitik und Demokratiefurcht im Kaiserreich. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, forthcoming 2020.

Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

(Ed. with Ute Planert). Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations, from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2015.

(Ed.) Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (Short Oxford History of Germany). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

(Ed., with David Blackbourn), Localism, Landscape, and the Ambiguities of Place: German-Speaking Central Europe, 1860-1930. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

(Ed., with Geoff Eley), Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann. Providence, RI and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2003.

(Ed.) Sachsen in Deutschland. Politik, Kultur und Gesellschaft 1830-1918. Studien zur Regionalgeschichte, Bd. 14. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2000.

(Ed.) Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2000.

Germany in the Age of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, 1996.

(Ed., with Simone Lässig and Karl Heinrich Pohl), Modernisierung und Region im wilhelminischen Deutschland. Wahlen, Wahlrecht und Politische Kultur. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1995, 2nd rev. ed. 1998.

(Ed., with Larry Eugene Jones), Between Reform, Reaction, and Resistance: Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945. Providence, RI and Oxford: Berg, 1993.

(Ed., with Larry Eugene Jones), Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives. Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Notables of the Right: The Conservative Party and Political Mobilization in Germany, 1876-1918. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1988.