History by generations
Subtitle: generational dynamics in modern history
By: edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Uffa Jensen, Christina Lubinski, and Bernd Weisbrod
Series: Göttinger Studien zur Generationsforschung -- vol. 11; Göttinger Studien zur Generationenforschung -- v. 11.
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag; Wallstein Verlag GmbH
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783835311626
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Conflict of generations; Congresses; Generations; Historiography
Description: The contributions to a joint conference of the Generations in Modern History graduate program of the University of Göttingen and the German Historical Institute in Washington confront the European idea of "youth generations" and "political generations" from the 1920s to the post-communist transformation with the more pragmatic American reading of demographic generations and consumer generations. The volume also deals with intellectual and political generations and with the significance of generations for demographic, economic and migration studies. In all of these cases, it seems that the generational logic is being reworked according to national agendas of belonging. Generational meanings may follow concrete biological genealogies, as in succession within family firms, or relate to more general categories of transformation, such as the cultural agenda of the Baby Boomers. But in every case, as these contributions from Europe and the U.S. show, historical time is read in generations, while history is not being made by generations.--
Notes: International conference proceedings, December 2010, Washington, D.C.