Changing the world, changing oneself
Subtitle: political protest and collective identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s
By: edited by Belinda Davis ... [et al.].
Contributors: Davis, Belinda.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Protest, culture and society -- 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845456511
Subjects: Youth protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Youth protest movements -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th entury; Youth -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Youth -- Germany (West) -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Youth -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century; Youth -- Germany (West) -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century; Group identity -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Group identity -- Germany (West) -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Relations -- Germany (West); Germany (West) -- Relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intellectual transfer : Theodor W. Adorno's American experience / Detlev Claussen; title: The limits of praxis : the social-psychological foundations of Theodor Adorno's and Herbert Marcuse's interpretations of the 1960s protest movements / John Abromeit; title: America's Vietnam in Germany, Germany in America's Vietnam : on the relocation of spaces and the appropriation of history / Wilfried Mausbach; title: Topographies of memory : the sixties student movement in Germany and the USA : representations in contemporary German literature / Susanne Rinner; title: "We too are Berliners" : protest, symbolism and the city in Cold War Germany / Carla MacDougall; title: A growing problem for foreign policy : the West German student movement  and the Western Alliance / Martin Klimke; title: Ostpolitik as domestic containment : the cultural contradictions of the Cold War and the West German state response / Jeremi Suri; title: Transformation by subversion? : the New Left and the question of violence / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey; title: "From protest to resistance" : Ulrike Meinhof and the transatlantic movement of ideas / Karin Bauer; title: White Negroes : the fascination of the authentic in the West German counterculture of the 1960s / Detlef Siegfried; title: The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the trial of the Ramstein / Maria Hahn; title: Between ballots and bullets / Georgy Katsiaficas; title: A Whole World Opening Up : transcultural contact, difference, and the politicization of New Left activists / Belinda Davis; title: "We didn't know how it was going to turn out" : contemporary activists discuss their experiences of the 1960s and 1970s.