Professor of History and German Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
D.Phil., Oxford University, 1983
Website: //retallack.faculty.history.utoronto.ca
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, forthcoming 2017.
Germany’s Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
(Ed.) Imperial Germany 1871-1918. The 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.