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Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe S. Lovell

Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe By S. Lovell

Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe by S. Lovell


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Summary

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?

Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe Summary

Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe by S. Lovell

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?

About S. Lovell

CATRIONA KELLY Professor of Russian and Co-Director of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK ANNA KRYLOVA Assistant Professor of History at Duke University, USA SANDRA SOUTO KUSTRIN Research Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History, Spanish National Research Council STEPHEN LOVELL Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UK S.A. SMITH Professor of History at the University of Essex, UK NICHOLAS STARGARDT Lecturer in Modern History and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, UK PAT THANE Professor of Contemporary British History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK RICHARD VINEN Reader in Modern European History at King's College London, UK BERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern European History at Gottingen University, Germany

Table of Contents

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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NPB9780230008915
9780230008915
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Generations in Twentieth-Century Europe by S. Lovell
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-09-26
230
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