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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Between Engagement an Enmity: Center-Right Activists and Student Protest Around 1968
- 2: Talking About (My) Generation: The Nazi Past, Cold War Present, and Intergenerational Relations in the 1960s
- 3: Between Adenauer and Coca-Cola: Cultural Transformation and Changing Gender Roles
- 4: From Berlin to Saigon and Back: Center-Right Internationalism Around 1968
- 5: Combative Politics: Staging Terror in the 1970s
- 6: The (Ir)Resistible Rise of the Other '68ers: Trajectories and Memories of Activism Through the 1980s and Beyond
- Conclusion: The Other '68ers and German History
About the author
Anna von der Goltz teaches German and European History in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Department of History. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2007 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford and at the University of Cambridge. Her first book Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis (Oxford University Press, 2009) won the Wiener Library's Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. She has published widely on 1968 in Germany and beyond. Originally from the northern German city of Bremen, she lives in Washington, D.C..
Summary
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.
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In her richly sourced and conceptually sophisticated study, Anna von der Goltz argues that 1968 should be understood as a movement of the left as well as the right...this is a thoughtful, substantial, and fascinating intervention in the histories of generations in general and of 1968 and its memory wars in particular. The author's methodological rigor regarding the complexities of generational identity will make this a standard work for scholars in that field.
