Generations in Twentieth-century Europe - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0230008917 ISBN 13: 9780230008915

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Riassunto

The concept of generation is ubiquitous in common parlance and public discourse: it is used to explain family relationships, consumer preferences, political change, and much else besides. But how can generation be used by historians? Do generations 'really' exist, or are they constructed and manipulated by social and cultural elites?

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L'autore:

CATRIONA KELLY Professor of Russian and Co-Director of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, UKANNA KRYLOVA Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, USASANDRA SOUTO KUSTRIN Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History, Spanish National Research CouncilSTEPHEN LOVELL Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UKS.A. SMITH Professor of History at the University of Essex, UKNICHOLAS STARGARDT Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, UKPAT THANE Professor of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UKRICHARD VINEN Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UKBERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern European History at Göttingen University, Germany

Contenuti:

Introduction; S.Lovell
Cultures of Change: Generations in the Politics and Memory of Modern Germany; B.Weisbrod
Orphaned by History: French Youth in the Shadow of World War II; R.Vinen
'Generation' as a Political Argument in West European Protest Movements during the 1960s; H.Nehring
The First Soviet Generation: Children and Religious Belief in Soviet Russia, 1917-41; S.Smith
Identity, Agency and the 'First Soviet Generation'; A.Krylova
Age Groups, Political Conflicts and Sociological Thought in Interwar Spain; S.Souto Kustrin
The War Child: A German Trauma?; N.Stargardt
'Good Night, Little Ones': Childhood in the 'Last Soviet Generation'; C.Kelly
Generations and Inter-Generational Relationships, Public and Private, in Twentieth-Century Britain; P.Thane
Soviet Russia's Older Generations; S.Lovell

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230008917
• ISBN 13: 9780230008915
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 230
• Redattore: Lovell Stephen