Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack's Books

The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39

By: Professor Barry A Jackisch

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The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39

By: Professor Barry A Jackisch

Through an examination of the Pan-German League - one of Germany's most prominent radical nationalist groups - and its connections to a range of right-wing organizations between 1918 and 1939, this study provides important new insights into the political fragmentation of the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power. It is the first book to examine in detail the Pan-German League's political activities in the Weimar and Nazi periods. Unlike existing studies that focus primarily on the League's ideology and public pronouncements, this book analyzes the organization's political connections with other prominent right-wing groups. Specifically, it explores Pan-German efforts to reshape the landscape of right-wing politics in the wake of German defeat in World War One and details how the League's actions undermined moderate conservatives and helped to radicalize Germany's largest conservative party, the German National People's Party (DNVP), at the local and national level. The book also sheds new light on the surprisingly contentious relationship between the Pan-Germans and the Nazi Party between 1920 and 1939. This study of the Pan-German League fits with more recent scholarship that emphasizes the political fragmentation of the German Right as an important precondition for the ultimate triumph of Hitler and Nazism in 1933. It will attract readers with an interest not only in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, but also wider issues of German/Central European history, radical nationalism, conservative and right-wing party politics, and the general political history of interwar Europe.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409461424

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9781409461425

Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

German Mission at Home and Abroad

By: Professor Jacqueline Van Gent,Professor Kirsten Rüther,Prof Dr Angelika Schaser

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Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

German Mission at Home and Abroad

By: Professor Jacqueline Van Gent,Professor Kirsten Rüther,Prof Dr Angelika Schaser

Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research, the authors explore the connections and differences in conversion experiences, tracing the local and regional rootedness of individual conversions as reflected in conversion narratives in three different locations: Germany and German missions in South Africa and colonial Australia, at a time of massive social changes in the 1860s.

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213

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472449231

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9781472449238

The German Right, 1860-1920

Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination

By: James N. Retallack,Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack

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The German Right, 1860-1920

Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination

By: James N. Retallack,Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack

With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics. The dynamic political culture that emerged challenged the adaptability of the 'interlocking directorate of the Right.' This work examines how the authoritarian imagination inspired the Right and how political pragmatism constrained it.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802091458

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9780802091451

The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism

Sven Hedin, Geography and the Path to Genocide

By: Professor Sarah K Danielsson

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The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism

Sven Hedin, Geography and the Path to Genocide

By: Professor Sarah K Danielsson

Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics. Focusing on one of the most influential figures within this group, Sven Hedin, this is the first study that systematically connects the geographic community to the intellectual history of the development of National-Socialist ideology and genocidal practices. The book demonstrates how colonial, racial and nationalistic policies were often spearheaded by explorers and geographers such as Hedin. In Germany, Britain, France, and Russia their positions as publicly recognized authors and reputable academics made them highly influential with politicians. Whilst this influence was to become most visible within Hitler's Germany, the debates were not by any means restricted to or even originated in, Germany. Germany was the home of some of the most prominent geographers, but this scientific community had a tradition of international debate and exchange with especially British, French and Russian geographic societies and institutions. Many issues that were later discussed and championed by National-Socialist ideology were aired and debated in this international setting - raising important questions about the international character and impact of National-Socialism. Tracing the intellectual history of the international geographic community and its relationship to National-Socialism, this study provides an assessment of Hedin's close involvement with the Nazi elite as a culmination of decades of political and scientific work. In so doing the book uncovers a long ignored or overlooked important connection between exploration, geographers, and genocide.

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1409484327

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Book's by Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack

The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39

The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918–39

Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century

The German Right, 1860-1920

The German Right, 1860-1920

The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism

The Explorer's Roadmap to National-Socialism

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