Generations in conflict : youth revolt and generation formation in Germany, 1770-1968 / edited by Mark Roseman.
| Other author | Roseman, Mark. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Cambridge Core |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Introduction: generation conflict and German history 1770-1968 / Mark Roseman -- 2. The ideal of youth in late eighteenth-century Germany / Joachim Whaley -- 3. Young Germans and Young Germany: some remarks on the history of German youth in the late eighteenth and in the first half of the nineteenth century / Rainer Elkar -- 4. The battle for the young: mobilising young people in Wilhelmine Germany / Jurgen Reulecke -- 5. Jewish politics and generational change 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 1918-1945 / Peter Lambert -- 9. Gender, generation and politics: young Protestant women in the final years of the Weimar Republic / Elizabeth Harvey. |
| Abstract | This is an English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme, first published in 1995. 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 literacy 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. |
| General note | Rev. papers from a German History Society Conference "The Generation game" held at the University of Keele in April 1991. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | English. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Generations in conflict. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 94021000 |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0511562764 |
| ISBN | 9780511562761 |