Changing the World, Changing Oneself

Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-651-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Belinda

Mausbach, Wilfried

Klimke, Martin

MacDougall, Carla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke and Carla MacDougall

PART I: ATLANTIC CROSSINGS: FROM GERMANY TO AMERICA AND BACK

Chapter 1. Intellectual Transfer: Theodor W. Adorno’s American Experience

Detlev Claussen

Chapter 2. The Limits of Praxis: The Social-Psychological Foundations of Theodor Adorno’s and Herbert Marcuse’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements

John Abromeit

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

Wilfried Mausbach

Chapter 4. Topographies of Memory: The Sixties Student Movement in Germany and the USA: Representations in Contemporary German Literature

Susanne Rinner

Chapter 5. “We too are Berliners”: Protest, Symbolism and the City in Cold War Germany

Carla MacDougall

PART III: PROTEST AND POWER

Chapter 6. A Growing Problem for Foreign Policy: The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance

Martin Klimke

Chapter 7. Ostpolitik as Domestic Containment: The Cultural Contradictions of the Cold War and the West German State Response

Jeremi Suri

PART IV: POWER AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 8. Transformation by Subversion? The New Left and the Question of Violence

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey

Chapter 9. “From Protest to Resistance”: Ulrike Meinhof and the Transatlantic Movement of Ideas

Karin Bauer

PART V: (EN)COUNTER-CULTURE

Chapter 10. White Negroes: The Fascination of the Authentic in the West German Counterculture of the 1960s

Detlef Siegfried

Chapter 11. The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the Trial of the Ramstein

Maria Höhn

Chapter 12. Between Ballots and Bullets

Georgy Katsiaficas

Chapter 13. A Whole World Opening Up: Transcultural Contact, Difference, and the Politicization of New Left Activists

Belinda Davis

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

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Davis, Belinda
Belinda Davis is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History at Rutgers University.

MacDougall, Carla
Carla MacDougall is a visiting assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Klimke, Martin
Martin Klimke is an Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Mausbach, Wilfried
Wilfried Mausbach is the Executive Director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg.

Carla MacDougall is a visiting assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.