Anna von der Goltz The Other '68ers (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Other '68ersCondition: NewEAN: 9780198849520ISBN: 9780198849520Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/14/2021Item Height: 240mmItem Length: 160mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 650gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West GermanyISBN-10: 0198849524Description: This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany. Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest. Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows.Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years. Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the shortcomings of West German democracy. 1968 was a moment of intense political conflict, but it also played out within the student body and nurtured contrasting identities. This book shows that the center-right involvement in 1968 had real consequences. Many of the protagonists of this book would go on to pursue high-profile political careers and leave their mark on West German political culturey. Other '68ers therefore sheds fresh light on how West Germany's center-right dealt with the crisis of hegemony and political identity it experienced in the wake of 1968, how it coped with generational change, how it transformed and modernized after losing power at the national level for the first time in 1969, and how it managed to re-emerge so successfully in the 1980s.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryAuthor: Anna von der GoltzRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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