Democracy in Disappearing Ink: The Politics of Exclusion in Germany before Hitler

Fri Oct 7 12:57:48 EDT 2016

The 2016 Grimm Lecture examines how and why anti-democrats fought against "one man, one vote" in pre-WWI Germany.
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Election battles were fought ferociously in pre-World War One Germany, when most middle-class Germans still opposed formal democracy. Anti-democrats deployed many exclusionary strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, and they repeatedly rewrote the rules of the electoral game. With a regional case study, historian James Retallack explores why so many Germans opposed the principle of “one man, one vote” and how they made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to inter German democracy after 1933.

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After studying as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford James Retallack received his D.Phil. in 1983 and joined the University of Toronto in 1987. His research interests (1830-1918) include German regional history, nationalism, anti-semitism, electoral politics, and historiography. He has authored or edited fourteen books, including Imperial Germany 1871-1918: The Short Oxford History of Germany and, most recently, Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways. His volume of on-line documents and images on Bismarckian Germany, edited for the German Historical Institute, Washington DC, reaches a world-wide audience.

Retallack has held grants, fellowships, and research prizes from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among others: these have allowed him to take up visiting professorships at the Free University Berlin and the University of Göttingen. He is General Editor of Oxford Studies in Modern European History. In November 2011 Retallack was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, October 25
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: University of Waterloo main campus, Quantum Nano Centre, room 1502
Notes: Refreshments to follow. The University of Waterloo Bookstore will be selling two of James Retallack's books after the lecture: The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination<http://wcgs.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3beb03ccd9b149a64146f1eb9&id=e9334aa591&e=c8212bd60d>, and Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways<http://wcgs.us13.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3beb03ccd9b149a64146f1eb9&id=0dc36e4806&e=c8212bd60d>.

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