Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

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Title: Changing the World, Changing Oneself : Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Atlantic Crossings: From Germany to America and Back
Chapter 1 Intellectual Transfer: Theodor W. Adorno’s American Experience
Chapter 2 The Limits of Praxis: The Social-Psychological Foundations of Theodor Adorno’s and Herbert Marcuse’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements
Part II Spaces and Identities
Chapter 3 America’s Vietnam in Germany— Germany in America’s Vietnam: On the Relocation of Spaces and the Appropriation of History
Chapter 4 Topographies of Memory: The 1960s Student Movement in Germany and the US. Representations in Contemporary German Literature
Chapter 5 “We too are Berliners” Protest, Symbolism, and the City in Cold War Germany
Part III Protest and Power
Chapter 6 A Growing Problem for US Foreign Policy: The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance
Chapter 7 Ostpolitik as Domestic Containment: The Cultural Contradictions of the Cold War and the West German State Response
Part IV Power and Resistance
Chapter 8 Transformation by Subversion? Th e New Left and the Question of Violence
Chapter 9 “From Protest to Resistance” Ulrike Meinhof and the Transatlantic Movement of Ideas
Part V (En)counter-Culture
Chapter 10 White Negroes: The Fascination of the Authentic in the West German Counterculture of the 1960s
Chapter 11 The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the Trial of the Ramstein 2
Chapter 12 Between Ballots and Bullets
Chapter 13 A Whole World Opening Up: Transcultural Contact, Difference, and the Politicization of “New Left”Activists
Part VI A Retrospective
Chapter 14 “We didn’t know how it was going to turn out” Contemporary Activists Discuss Their Experiences of the 1960s and 1970s
Contributors
Bibliography
Index

Contributor: Abromeit, John [Contributor]; Bauer, Karin [Contributor]; Claussen, Detlev [Contributor]; Davis, Belinda [Contributor]; Davis, Belinda [Editor]; Gilcher-Holtey, Ingrid [Contributor]; Höhn, Maria [Contributor]; Katsiaficas, Georgy [Contributor]; Klimke, Martin [Contributor]; Klimke, Martin [Editor]; MacDougall, Carla [Contributor]; MacDougall, Carla [Editor]; Mausbach, Wilfried [Contributor]; Mausbach, Wilfried [Editor]; Rinner, Susanne [Contributor]; Siegfried, Detlef [Contributor]; Suri, Jeremi [Contributor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2010]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (356 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781845458089

ISBN: 9781845458089

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Keywords: Group identity Germany (West) History 20th century ; Group identity United States History 20th century ; Youth protest movements Germany (West) History 20th century ; Youth protest movements United States History 20th century ; Youth Political activity Germany (West) History 20th century ; Youth Political activity United States History 20th century ; Youth Germany (West) Attitudes History 20th century ; Youth United States Attitudes History 20th century ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

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Footnote: In English

Description: A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution. These meticulously researched essays offer new perspectives on the Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s through the perspective of the youth movements that shook the U.S., Western Europe, and beyond. These movements led to the transformation of diplomatic relations and domestic political cultures, as well as ideas about democracy and who best understood and promoted it. Bringing together scholars of several countries and many disciplines, this volume also uniquely features the reflections of former activists

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