A captivating time, the 60s and 70s now draw more attention than ever. The first substantial work by historians has appeared only in the last few years, and this volume offers an important contribution. These meticulously researched essays offer new perspectives on the Cold War and global relations in the 1960s and 70s through the perspective of the youth movements that shook the U.S., Western Europe, and beyond. These movements led to the transformation of diplomatic relations and domestic political cultures, as well as ideas about democracy and who best understood and promoted it. Bringing together scholars of several countries and many disciplines, this volume also uniquely features the reflections of former activists.
Table of Content
Introduction
Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke and Carla Mac Dougall
PART I: ATLANTIC CROSSINGS: FROM GERMANY TO AMERICA AND BACK
Chapter 1. Intellectual Transfer: Theodor W. Adorno’s American Experience
Detlev Claussen
Chapter 2. The Limits of Praxis: The Social-Psychological Foundations of Theodor Adorno’s and Herbert Marcuse’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements
John Abromeit
PART II: SPACES AND IDENTITIES
Chapter 3. America’s Vietnam in Germany – Germany in America’s Vietnam: On the Relocation of Spaces and the Appropriation of History
Wilfried Mausbach
Chapter 4. Topographies of Memory: The Sixties Student Movement in Germany and the USA: Representations in Contemporary German Literature
Susanne Rinner
Chapter 5. “We too are Berliners”: Protest, Symbolism and the City in Cold War Germany
Carla Mac Dougall
PART III: PROTEST AND POWER
Chapter 6. A Growing Problem for Foreign Policy: The West German Student Movement and the Western Alliance
Martin Klimke
Chapter 7. Ostpolitik as Domestic Containment: The Cultural Contradictions of the Cold War and the West German State Response
Jeremi Suri
PART IV: POWER AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 8. Transformation by Subversion? The New Left and the Question of Violence
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey
Chapter 9. “From Protest to Resistance”: Ulrike Meinhof and the Transatlantic Movement of Ideas
Karin Bauer
PART V: (EN)COUNTER-CULTURE
Chapter 10. White Negroes: The Fascination of the Authentic in the West German Counterculture of the 1960s
Detlef Siegfried
Chapter 11. The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the Trial of the Ramstein
Maria Höhn
Chapter 12. Between Ballots and Bullets
Georgy Katsiaficas
Chapter 13. A Whole World Opening Up: Transcultural Contact, Difference, and the Politicization of New Left Activists
Belinda Davis
PART VI: A RETROSPECTIVE
Chapter 14. “We didn’t know how it was going to turn out”: Contemporary Activists Discuss Their Experiences of the 1960s and 1970s
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Carla Mac Dougall is a visiting assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
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