Mark Roseman

Generations in Conflict

Youth Revolt and Generation Formation in Germany 1770 1968
Herausgeber: Roseman, Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme. Responding to a recent shift in social historical writing away from an exclusive focus on class towards an interest in other 'imagined communities' of ethnicity, gender and generation, it addresses, first, the extraordinary power and persistence of a German tradition of youthful rebellion extending from the Sturm und Drang in the eighteenth century to the student revolts of 1968 and, second, the impact of the dramatic ruptures and discontinuities in modern German history on the formation and interaction of successive historical cohorts. Using a variety of different approaches, including literary and oral history, the collection pays particular attention to the way generational identities interacted with those of class and gender. The book adds to our understanding of generations, of the balance between continuity and discontinuity in modern German history, of the generational roots of National Socialism and the Hitler Youth generation's impact on East and West German society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521441834
• ISBN-10: 0521441838
• Artikelnr.: 33769208

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Generation conflict and German history 1770-1968 Mark
Roseman; 2. The ideal of youth in late 18th-century Germany Joachim Whaley;
3. Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German
youth in the late 18th and in the first half of the 19th century Rainer
Elkar; 4. The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine
Germany Jürgen Reulecke; 5. Jewish politics and generation conflict in
Wilhelmine Germany Jacob Borut; 6. The 'Front Generation' and the politics
of Weimar Germany Richard Bessel; 7. The 'New Woman' and generation
conflict: perceptions of young women's sexual mores in the Weimar Republic
Cornelie Usborne; 8. Generations of German historians: patronage,
censorship and the containment of generation conflict, 1918-45 Peter
Lambert; 9. Gender, generation and politics: young protestant women in the
final years of the Weimar Republic Elizabeth Harvey; 10. The Hitler Youth
generation and its role in the two post-war German states Alexander von
Plato; 11. The BDM generation: a female generation in transition from
dictatorship to democracy Dagmar Reese; 12. A generation twice betrayed:
youth policy in the transition from the Third Reich to the Soviet Zone of
Occupation 1945-6 Michael Buddrus; 13. The generation that never was: young
labour in the Ruhr mining industry 1945-57 Mark Roseman; 14. The German
Kriegskinder. Origins and impact of the generation of 1968 Heinz Bude.