James Retallack

Red Saxony

Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Red Saxony argues that election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. This book asks: how was Germany governed in the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II? How did fear of revolution push liberal and conservative parties together? How did Germany's leaders seetheir nation's future?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1350g
• ISBN-13: 9780199668786
• ISBN-10: 0199668787
• Artikelnr.: 47867431

Autorenporträt

James Retallack studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and received his DPhil in 1983. He joined the History Department at the University of Toronto in 1987 and served as Chair of the German Department from 1999 to 2002. In 1993 to 1994, he spent a year at the Free University Berlin as a Humboldt Research Fellow in the Political Science department. He also held a Visiting Professorship in History at the University of Göttingen in 2002 and 2003 when he was awarded the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Research Prize by the Humboldt Foundation. He became an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: On the Threshold of a New Age
2: The Possibilities of Liberal Reform
3: Enemies of the Reich
4: The Struggle Against Revolution
5: Against Liberalism and the Jews
6: Authoritarianism Under Siege
7: Suffrage Reform as Coup d'Etat
8: "Red Saxony"
9: Deflecting Democracy
10: Crisis and Retrenchment
11: Dance
12: Politics in a New Key
13: Adrift
14: Democracy Deferred