Author: James Retallack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: germany, history, oxford, short, imperial
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 019920487X
ISBN-13: 9780199204878

The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck’s "blood and iron" policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; and its avant-garde artists reflected the ferment in European culture. But Germany also played a decisive role in tipping Europe’s fragile balance of power over the brink and into the catacl

Authors:Hartmut Pogge Von Strandmann, James N. Retallack,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: hartmut, essays, pogge, von, strandmann, reform, meanings, legacies, german, modernities, imperialism, wilhelminism
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2003-05
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571812237
ISBN-13: 9781571812230

More than three decades have now elapsed since the Fischer controversy dramatically opened Imperial Germany (1871-1918) for serious historical research. The emerging "new orthodoxy" of the mid-1970s held that German history was stamped by a calamitous misdevelopment in contrast to the healthier trajectories of societies further to the west. But since that time, constructive critiques of this perspective have suggested that the sources of Germany’s domestic and international crises from the 1890s to 1914 need to be reassessed. In particular they have to be disengaged from normative assumption

Authors:G Eley, J Retallack,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: meanings, reform, imperialism, modernities, legacies, german, wilhelminism
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-10-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571816879
ISBN-13: 9781571816870

What was distinctive - and distinctively "modern" - about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German political history before 1914. While proposing a more measured understanding of Wilhelmine Germany’s extraordinarily dynamic society, they also gra

Author: Gregory J. Retallack
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: past, soils
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0632053763
ISBN-13: 9780632053766

It is 10 years since publication of the first edition of soils of the past. In that time the subject of paleopedology has grown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream of geological research. Ancient soils contain vital mineralogical, geochemical, textural, and paleontological information about the continental environments in which they formed. Advances in isotope geochemistry and sequence-stratigraphic models allow ever more detailed reconstructions of environmental change from paleosols, and new insights into such diverse topics as atmospheric chemistry, global change, palae

Author: Joan Retallack
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: wager, poethical
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2004-03-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520218418
ISBN-13: 9780520218413

In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today’s chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle’s definition of happiness, Epicurus’s swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne’s essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage’s redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with

Authors:Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: millennium, poets, selections, stein, gertrude
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0520248066
ISBN-13: 9780520248069

This selection of Gertrude Stein’s work is taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when the iconic modernist poet was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence all the arts. Editor Joan Retallack has chosen complete texts or selections that lend themselves to a clarified vision of Stein’s oeuvre. In her brilliant introduction, Retallack provides the historical and biographical context for Stein’s lifelong project of composing a "continuous present," an effort which parallels many of the most importan

Authors:John Cage, Joan Retallack,
Publisher: Wesleyan
Keywords: art, music, words, muses, cage, musicage
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1996-01-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0819563110
ISBN-13: 9780819563118

The entire range of John Cage’s work and thought, explored in three wide-ranging dialogues, which constitute his last unified statement on his art.